Unexpected Trajectory Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua
Why is ‘Oumuamua differing from its expected trajectory? Last year, 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua became the first known asteroid […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
Hope for the Great Apes, and Maybe for Us by ...
Mountain gorillas are faring better. So what’s wrong with a little optimism? Published: November 19, 2018 at 01:00AM […]
Will We Survive Climate Change? by JOHN SCHWARTZ
Possibly. There is ‘no scientific support for inevitable doom,’ one expert notes. Published: November 19, 2018 at 01:00AM […]
Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them. ...
Science is mired in a “replication” crisis. Fixing it will not be easy. Published: November 19, 2018 at […]
NASA Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Landing Site: A Crater ...
The rover will search the Jezero Crater and delta for the chemical building blocks of life and other […]
‘Enough Is Enough’: Science, Too, Has a Problem With Harassment ...
Many women in science thought that meritocracy was the antidote to sexism. Now some have decided on a […]
How Can We Unleash the Immune System? by DENISE GRADY
Although immunotherapy can work wonders for cancer, it does not help everyone, side effects can be fierce, and […]
Why Don’t We Have Vaccines Against Everything? by DONALD G. ...
Money is just the obvious obstacle. A few diseases, like H.I.V., so far have outwitted both the immune […]
Why Are We Still So Fat? by GINA KOLATA
Only bariatric surgery reliably leads to long-term weight loss. Now scientists hope to duplicate the effects with a […]
When Will We Solve Mental Illness? by BENEDICT CAREY
Biology was supposed to cure what ails psychiatry. Decades later, millions of people with mental disorders are still […]