Lassa Fever Carries Little Risk to Public, Experts Say
By DENISE GRADY The viral illness killed a man who had traveled to New Jersey from Liberia, where […]
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Review: ‘The Digital Doctor’ by Robert Wachter Weighs Medicine’s Technological ...
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. The author is both doubtful and hopeful, old enough to remember the way things […]
Ants That Show Some Spring in Their Jaws to Escape
By JAMES GORMAN Trap-jaw ants have mandibles with which they can jump by striking something solid. A recent […]
Nature’s Waste Management Crews
By NATALIE ANGIER Scientists are increasingly interested in what might be called animal sanitation studies — how different […]
Students Measure Space Dust as New Horizons Heads for Pluto
By LAURA PARKER An instrument built at the University of Colorado is analyzing space dust for the remnants […]
Even Einstein’s Research Can Take Time to Matter
By SINDYA N. BHANOO A new analysis has found that “sleeping beauties,” research papers whose importance is not […]
Relax, the Terminator Is Far Away
By JOHN MARKOFF Despite the warnings of visionaries like Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, today’s artificial intelligence is […]
Maligned Study on Gay Unions Is Shaking Trust
By BENEDICT CAREY and PAM BELLUCK The questioned findings, published in December in Science, have shaken not only […]
The Wisdom of a Beautiful Mind
By THE NEW YORK TIMES While John F. Nash Jr. often said he had regained his mental health […]
Scientists Make Novel Attempt to Save Giant Turtle Species
By RACHEL NUWER A pair of Yangtze giant softshell turtles in a zoo near Shanghai have produced only […]