Eric Betzig’s Life Over the Microscope
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS Dr. Betzig was one of three scientists given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2015
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Has Next Mission After Pluto
By KENNETH CHANG The spacecraft will visit 2014 MU69, another piece of the frigid debris beyond Neptune along […]
Sunny for today in #Pully, #Switzerland!
Good morning This is the #weather forecast for #today: With a high of 29°C and a low of […]
Puppis A Supernova Remnant
Driven by the explosion of a massive star, supernova remnant Puppis A is blasting into the surrounding interstellar […]
Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work
By BENEDICT CAREY To some, the news that most studies do not hold up when retested came as […]
Daily Activity Summary for August 28, 2015
These are the results of my activities* for August 28, 2015: Total steps: 10639 Calories burned: 2571 Traveled: […]
Three Popular Psychology Studies That Didn’t Hold Up
By BENEDICT CAREY and MICHAEL ROSTON Researchers re-did 100 published psychology studies, and many did not check out. […]
NASA’s Next Horizon in Space
By MICHAEL ROSTON Since New Horizons beamed back photos of Pluto, the question has loomed: What’s next? More […]
Regenerative Medicine Researcher Cleared of Scientific Misconduct Charges
By HENRY FOUNTAIN The allegations, brought by colleagues, related to three patients on whom Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a […]
A Twist to How a Túngara Frog Finds Her Prince
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Given a choice of two males, a female will pick the most attractive. But, […]