New York Times - Science

Searing temperatures in Western Europe are drawing comparisons to 2003, when a deadly heat wave sparked a reckoning.A visitor to the Palace of Versailles in France on Monday, where temperatures exceeded 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased in clay envelopes.

It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.

A generic version of a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug, manufactured in Bangladesh for a fraction of the American price, may give some families around the world an unlikely lifeline.Josua Lottering traveled with his mother from South Africa to Bangladesh to buy a life-changing drug for cystic fibrosis.

A pilot program is building solar panels over irrigation canals to generate electricity. As a bonus, the shade prevents water from evaporating.