Fewer Ebola Cases Go Unreported Than Thought, Study Finds
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Transmission of the Ebola virus occurs mostly within families, in hospitals and at […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
The Potsdam Gravity Potato
Why do some places on Earth have higher gravity than others? Sometimes the reason is unknown. To help […]
Cloudy for today in Pully, Switzerland!
Good morning This is the weather forecast for today: With a high of 6°C and a low of […]
The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced
By RON COWEN An artist and a historian used digital processing techniques to hear again to the pulses […]
A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying
By JOHN TIERNEY When you’re nervous, how can you be yourself? How you can force yourself to relax? […]
Study to Examine Effects of Artificial Intelligence
By JOHN MARKOFF A study hosted by Stanford University study will examine impacts on society, including on the […]
Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
By JOHN MARKOFF On the heels of his Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Microsoft co-founder launched the […]
Daily Activity Summary for December 15, 2014
These are the results of my activities* for December 15, 2014: Total steps: 5893 Calories burned: 2233 Traveled: […]
In Video of Burning Match, the Eye Meets More
By JAMES GORMAN Three Stanford researchers, using so-called schlieren imaging, demonstrate the complexities of what seems like an […]
Is a Two-Degree Limit on Global Warming Off Target?
By JUSTIN GILLIS Science and observation have raised questions of whether the limit of a two-degrees Celsius temperature […]