I Have the Tree. Where’s the Grapefruit? by C. CLAIBORNE ...
Grapefruit trees need light, bees — and a temperature gradient. Published: May 20, 2019 at 02:00AM from #NYT […]
Science
Why High-Class People Get Away With Incompetence by HEATHER MURPHY
People who came from higher social classes were more likely to have an inflated sense of their skills, […]
Peering Beneath a Source of El Capitan’s Deadly Rockfalls by ...
Thermal imaging reveals surprisingly little “glue” between the famous rock’s face and sheets that are peeling off it. […]
‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up by ...
Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models. Published: May 20, 2019 at […]
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or […]
A Circumhorizontal Arc Over Ohio
Why would clouds appear to be different colors? The reason here is that ice crystals in distant cirrus […]
Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan
Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan are small, inner, ring moons of Saturn. They are shown at the same scale […]
The Ins and Outs of Knit Theory by SIOBHAN ROBERTS
For physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto, “knitting is coding,” and yarn is a programmable material. Published: May 17, 2019 at […]
SpaceX Again Delays Starlink Internet Satellite Launch by KENNETH CHANG
Elon Musk’s company will wait until next week to test its system that aims to provide high-speed internet […]
The Global Helium Shortage Is Real, but Don’t Blame Party ...
It’s not just Party City. Everyone is running out of helium. Part of the problem is that it’s […]