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

Books of The Times: Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo
The astrophysicist Janna Levin investigates the politics and personal dynamics of the physicists involved in the journey to detect gravitational waves.

Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War
Buildups by the United States, Russia and China unsettle the balance of destructive force that has kept the nuclear peace for more than a half-century.

Calls for Shipping and Aviation to Do More to Cut Emissions
Left out of the Paris climate agreement, which is to be signed at the United Nations this week, the two industries nonetheless face pressure to be greener.

N.Y.C. Nature: With Spring, the Rare Spotted Salamander Emerges
How these coldblooded New Yorkers have survived underground in the city is anyone’s guess, but the amphibians emerge during spring’s first rain.

Tiger Kills Zookeeper in Florida
The keeper at the Palm Beach Zoo was performing a routine procedure when killed by the Malayan tiger, a zoo official said.

Critic of Psychologists’ Role in Interrogation Is Asked to Reconsider
David Hoffman, a Chicago lawyer, found that a number of psychologists had shielded America’s interrogation techniques.

SpaceX Rocket Lands Successfully on Ship
After multiple failed attempts, SpaceX successfully landed a rocket on a drone ship.

ScienceTake | A Crayfish in Trouble
The Murray crayfish, the world’s second largest, is sensitive to changes in habitat. But populations can come back from current declines.

Mission to Alpha Centauri
The cosmologist Stephen Hawking and the entrepreneur Yuri Milner released a simulation that shows how a project called Breakthrough Starshot aims to send small robots to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.