Joseph Traub, Who Helped Bring Computer Science to Universities, Dies ...
By STEVE LOHR Mr. Traub, who founded the computer science department at Columbia, helped the emerging academic discipline […]
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A Way to Make Depth-Sensing Cameras Better
By SINDYA N. BHANOO The cameras can detect how far away something is. But they didn’t work well […]
Mutation Reduces Pregnancy Complications for Africa’s Khoe-San People
By SINDYA N. BHANOO The gene variant can alter the formation of the placenta, resulting in larger, healthier […]
Book Review: ‘The Butterflies of North America; Titian Peale’s Lost ...
By DANA JENNINGS With “The Butterflies of North America; Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript,” today’s readers can appreciate both […]
A Piece of the Earliest Baboon Ever Found
By SINDYA N. BHANOO A two-million-year-old skull fragment was found in the same South African cave that turned […]
Japan Delivers Whiskey to Space Station_ for Science
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but […]
The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths
By GEORGE JOHNSON More than ever, the best available science doesn’t seem to change minds in a civilization […]
The Inexorable Forces of Nail Growth
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY It’s like the movement of a tectonic plate at the end of your finger, […]
Do You Have Math Anxiety?
By Unknown Author You may not like taking a quiz to measure your math anxiety. But don’t worry. […]
How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but ...
By WILLIAM J. BROAD Investigators are still struggling to understand the most powerful eruption in recorded history, which […]