Science: What Geeks are talking about from The New York Times

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Here is the latest Science News from The New York Times.

Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Is Dead at 76
He shared the prize in 1996 for discovering a new form of carbon, nicknamed the buckyball.

The Science of Fat: Short Answers to Hard Questions About Weight Loss
Some questions about weight loss and maintenance come up again and again. Here are some answers.

Matter: Strange Microbe May Help Slow Zika Epidemic, Scientists Find
Mosquitoes infected with the bacterium Wolbachia resist viruses like Zika and dengue. Now researchers are testing the bacterium on mosquitoes in the wild.

When Can Fetuses Feel Pain? Utah Abortion Law and Doctors Are at Odds
Abortion rights activists and a number of doctors say a new law requiring anesthesia for fetuses aborted 20 weeks or more into a pregnancy is not based on science.

Feature: The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community
An improbable tale of how a British maverick harnessed crowdsourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of the sky.

Leopards Are More Vulnerable Than Believed, Study Finds
The big cats have lost up to 75 percent of their historic range over the last three centuries, a study found, indicating that they are more threatened than biologists thought.

IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer
The tech giant will offer online tutorials, visual simulations and a gamelike system that will parcel out access to a modest quantum computer.

Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Plan
The first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change.

LIGO Gravitational Wave Researchers to Divide $3 Million
Yuri Milner, a Russian Internet entrepreneur, announced that the three leaders would split $1 million. The balance will go to 1,012 other scientists.

Carbon’s Casualties: Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’
A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change.

Trilobites: If You Blink, You Might Miss the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
The Eta Aquarids is one of the fastest meteor showers. Its specks pierce the sky at about 148,000 miles per hour.

South Korea Unveils Olympic Uniforms With Zika in Mind
The country’s uniforms for ceremonies, training and time at athletes’ village in Brazil will be infused with mosquito repellant.

Q&A: Envying the Starfish, Regenerator of Limbs
Human beings can regenerate some tissues, notably the liver and skin, but limbs are another matter.

Bach Pie Recipe
How to make an oblong rectangle of creamy dark chocolate studded with banana slices, topped by a braid of four glazed pastry plaits.

Reactions: Letters to the Editor
Readers react to articles in Science Times.

Researchers Aim to Put Carbon Dioxide Back to Work
Scientists are working on ways to recycle and reuse carbon dioxide, rather than storing it underground, to fight climate change.

Basics: Eugenia Cheng Makes Math a Piece of Cake
It can also be a piece of pie, or custard — so says a professor who spreads the magic of numbers through dessert recipes.

After a Comeback, New Challenges for Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears
Being “delisted” as threatened under the Endangered Species Act could subject a larger bear population to new challenges.

Why It’s Hard to Keep the Pounds Off
Rebecca Wright and her husband, Daniel Wright, have gained back a lot of the weight they lost six years ago on Season 8 of “The Biggest Loser.” A study of the contestants helps explain why.

The Science of Fat: After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but a study of them helps explain why they could not keep all of that weight off.

Dredging of Miami Port Badly Damaged Coral Reef, Study Finds
The report found that as much as 81 percent of the reef near the dredging site was buried in sediment, despite a plan to minimize the damage.

Readers’ Responses to a Woman’s Journey Living With Alzheimer’s
More than 100 readers commented on N.R. Kleinfield’s article, “Fraying at the Edges.” Many of them shared their personal connections with the disease.

What Is Alzheimer’s Disease?
Here are answers to some common questions about a disease that can seem frightening, mysterious and daunting.

First U.S. Death Tied to Zika Is Reported in Puerto Rico
An elderly man from Puerto Rico succumbed after complications from an earlier infection caused by the disease-carrying mosquito.

Trilobites: The Curious Case of the Caspian Sea’s Scars
A NASA oceanographer saw what appeared to be a scraped seafloor on satellite images of an archipelago.

Review: ‘A Beautiful Planet’ Shows a Dazzling Earth From Space
Images of the planet, and even mundane tasks, take on a fascinating quality in this documentary shot by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Trilobites: This Is Your Brain on Podcasts
Different people’s brains absorb a compelling story in the roughly the same complicated pattern, using many parts of the brain, researchers found.

Lured by Early Warm Weather, Scorpions Emerge to Swarm Arizona Homes
As temperatures soared in February, the scorpions awoke from their winter slumber, ahead of their usual late March arrival.

How Do You Move a 70,000-Pound (Dead) Whale?
We talked to the experts so you don’t have to. (Safety tip: You may want to hold the TNT.)

Lizards, Too, May Sleep in Stages
The bearded dragon shows stages of sleep similar to those in humans and other mammals, suggesting that the stages evolved earlier than scientists thought.

Airlift Is Sending 33 Lions From South American Circuses to African Sanctuary
In what is being called the largest lion airlift in history, the big cats — together weighing more than 10,000 pounds — will make a 14- to 15-hour trip.

British Medical Group Urges Smokers to Switch to E-Cigarettes
The Royal College of Physicians summarized the growing body of science on e-cigarettes and found that their benefits far outweigh the potential harms.

ScienceTake | Shake a Tail Feather
Peacocks not only show their spectacular tails, or trains, they rattle them, and scientists are nailing down the physics of feather vibration.

Can You Hug Your Dog? Yes, but….
A psychology professor’s suggestion some dogs may feel distressed by being hugged ricocheted across social media.

SpaceX Says It Plans to Send a Probe to Mars
Elon Musk’s company said it would dispatch its Dragon vessel to the planet, possibly as early as 2018, with a long-term goal of establishing colonies.

ScienceTake: Peacocks Don’t Just Show Their Feathers, They Rattle Them
Researchers studied the physics of how peacocks shake their tail feathers and found they resonate like a guitar string.

Texting and Driving? Watch Out for the Textalyzer
Policy makers and road safety experts are reaching back to tested strategies: They want to treat distracted driving like drunken driving.

Wait, What’s That Noise? Cicadas, the New Batch, to Sound Siren Song in 5 States
Everything you need to know about the insects set to ascend from the ground after 17 years and seek mates with singing that sounds like a tiny maraca.

F.D.A. Urges Caution on Yeast Infection Drug During Pregnancy
The agency had previously warned that high doses of the drug, fluconazole, might be linked to birth defects. A new study suggests dangers at lower doses.

2nd Lawsuit Filed in U.S. to Block Chimps’ Move to England
Animal rights groups and primate sanctuaries are fighting a plan to send eight chimpanzees living at a research laboratory in Atlanta to a wildlife park in Kent, England.

Trilobites: Makemake, the Moonless Dwarf Planet, Has a Moon, After All
Astronomers found the moon, nicknamed MK2, in an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

6 Measles Cases Reported in Memphis Area, Exceeding Rest of U.S.
Until the recent outbreak in Tennessee, there had been just four cases reported this year, a steep decline from 2014 and 2015.

Sharp Eyes, Keen Ears, and Now Its Very Own Dinosaur Name
After studying a rare and finely preserved skull unearthed in Argentina, scientists have named a new dinosaur, Sarmientosaurus musacchioi.

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