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Science Times: The March for Science

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Demonstrators gathered last month in front of the White House after President Trump rolled back many of President Obama's climate-change policies. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Scientists and Activists Look Beyond the March

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

On Saturday scientists and their advocates are expected to fill streets in more than 500 cities. But what they do next is just as important.

The Anderson family making protest signs at home near Salt Lake City. They are planning to attend the March for Science on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Kim Raff for The New York Times

The March for Science: Why Some Are Going, and Some Will Sit Out

By MICHAEL ROSTON

In remarks submitted The Times, some said the president's posture toward science demanded a response, but others worried about the politicization of science.

Albert Einstein at the opening of the Jewish Pavilion at the World's Fair in Queens in 1939.

Underwood Archives/Getty Images

'Genius' Unravels the Mysteries of Einstein's Universe

By DENNIS OVERBYE

A new series on the National Geographic Channel introduces viewers to the man behind the cuddly accent and the curvatures of space-time.

Adam Lipson, a public defender, looked on as a participant in San Francisco's Young Adult Court addressed Judge Bruce E. Chan at a session in March.

Laura Morton for The New York Times

A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science

By TIM REQUARTH

San Francisco's Young Adult Court, created in 2015, is based on recent research suggesting that brain development extends beyond age 18, into the 20s.

Ruohong Wu

The World's Most Beautiful Mathematical Equation

By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN

Math can make our brains light up in the same way art and music do.

$Rows of plumes rise from ice fractures on the surface of Enceladus.$

NASA/JPL-Caltech, via Space Science Institute

Plumes From Saturn's Moon Enceladus Hint That It Could Support Life

By KENNETH CHANG

Data from the Cassini spacecraft suggest that hydrothermal vents could provide ingredients for microbes or other forms of alien life to exist.

Your shoelaces come undone thanks to the forces applied to your feet and the kind of knot tied, among other factors, researchers have found.

Getty Images

Do Your Shoelaces Keep Coming Undone? Engineers Explain Why

By CHRISTOPHER MELE

Blame physics and "weak" knots for unraveled laces, a phenomenon researchers called "sudden and catastrophic."

An artist's rendering of the species Teleocrater rhadinus, an ancient relative of dinosaurs and birds.

Gabriel Lio

A Dinosaur Cousin's Crocodile Ankles Surprise Paleontologists

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

The features of 245-million-year-old Teleocrater fossils may help fill in our understanding of how dinosaurs evolved.

Automation fears have stirred many fanciful visions of the future. An expert panel calls for new tools of analysis to help workers adapt.

Kristian Hammerstad

New Tools Needed to Track Technology's Impact on Jobs, Panel Says

By STEVE LOHR

The nation is "flying blind" into a new era of automation and artificial intelligence, the authors of a National Academies study warned.

Climate Change

An aerial view of the ice canyon that now carries meltwater from the Kaskawulsh Glacier, on the right, away from the Slims River.

Dan Shugar/University of Washington-Tacoma

Climate Change Reroutes a Yukon River in a Geological Instant

By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Melting water from one of Canada's largest glaciers used to flow north, to the Bering Sea. Last spring, it reversed course, a case of what scientists call "river piracy."

Flooding in Asunción, Paraguay, brought on by the strong El Niño in 2016.

Andres Cristaldo/European Pressphoto Agency

It's Like It Never Left: Another El Niño May Be on the Way

By HENRY FOUNTAIN

Just a year after weather patterns were altered worldwide, scientists see signs that more disruption may be brewing.

Traffic in New York City. Conservative groups want Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to overturn a ruling known as the endangerment finding, which provides the legal foundation for the Obama administration's climate-change policies.

Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

Scott Pruitt Faces Anger From Right Over E.P.A. Finding He Won't Fight

By CORAL DAVENPORT

Critics charge the agency's administrator should have challenged a legal finding that underpinned the Obama climate policies, but he refuses to budge.

Dome-shaped pingos, mounds consisting of a layer of soil over a core of ice, in the permafrost in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Christopher Miller for The New York Times

More Permafrost Than Thought May Be Lost as Planet Warms

By HENRY FOUNTAIN

A study suggests that as the planet warms toward 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, each degree Celsius of warming will lead to the thawing of 1.5 million square miles of permafrost.