First Buyers of Nissan Leaf Get a Trunkful of Perks

The first all-electric carfrom a major auto company, the Nissan Leaf, arrives at dealerships in December, but thousands of Americans are already learning that going electric can come with perks like no other car purchase.“It just keeps getting better and better,” said Justin McNaughton, among the 20,000 people who have reserved a Leaf....

Recipe Redux: The Community Cookbook

The following morning, coffee in hand in my gray cubicle on 43rd Street, I was greeted by a tidal wave of e-mail. People told meabout classics like paella (a recipe that took the former Times food editor Craig Claiborne five tries to perfect),Le Cirque’s spaghetti primavera(a recipe so renowned that three people claim to have invented it)...

Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery

Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered “colony collapse.” Suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food.Now, a unique partnership — of military scientists and entomologists — appears to have achieved a major breakthrough: identifying a new suspect, or two.A fungus...