When the Surgeon Is a Mom by EMMA GOLDBERG
Nearly 40 percent of pregnant surgery residents consider dropping out. Many wonder: Why can’t the system accommodate motherhood? […]
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Frank Press, White House Science Adviser, Is Dead at 95 ...
After serving as President Jimmy Carter’s chief aide on scientific matters, he led the National Academy of Sciences […]
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Great for Bacteria by ...
The smoldering crater left by the apocalyptic space rock became a nice home for blue-green algae within years […]
Louis Nirenberg, ‘One of the Great Mathematicians,’ Dies at 94 ...
Winner of the math world’s equivalent of a Nobel, he puzzled out equations describing the vibrating of strings, […]
Neanderthal Genes Hint at Much Earlier Human Migration From Africa ...
Modern humans may have left the continent as long 200,000 years ago, a new analysis suggests. Published: January […]
Will the United States Lose the Universe? by DENNIS OVERBYE
For more than a century, American astronomers have held bragging rights as observers of the cosmos. But that […]
Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Came a Startling ...
Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. This month his crew started trying to solve […]
Fossilized Tooth Captures a Pterosaur’s Failed Squid Meal by CARA ...
The unlikely fossil sheds new light on the flying reptile’s dining habits. Published: January 30, 2020 at 01:00AM […]
Farewell to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Its 16 Years ...
The space-based observatory’s infrared eyes spotted 7 Earth-size worlds orbiting another star, a new ring around Saturn and […]
In Paris, a Mathematician Confronts the Political Odds by SIOBHAN ...
Is a scientist in politics incongruous? Cédric Villani, Fields Medal winner and mayoral candidate, doesn’t think so. Published: […]