英語で読む日経サイエンス

On December 26, 2019, Erin Pettit trudged across a plain of glaring snow and ice, dragging an ice-penetrating radar unit the size of a large suitcase on a red plastic sled behind her. The brittle snow … 続きを読む →

On the website The Infinite Conversation, German filmmaker Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek are having a public chat about anything and everything. Their discussion is compelling … 続きを読む →

How do you think the dark matter problem is solved?” Vera C. Rubin urgently asked me, within minutes of being introduced at a 2009 Women in Astronomy conference. To this day, I can’t remember what … 続きを読む →

When we humans hear birdsong, which many have appreciated more than ever during the pandemic, we can’t help but think about parallels to human music and language. We discern distinct melodies linkin … 続きを読む →

On vital measures that predict later success in school and life, small children in the U.S. do worse than kids in comparable countries. This distressing information comes from an Organisation for Econ … 続きを読む →

To the average person, it must seem as if the field of artificial intelligence is making immense progress. According to some of the more gushing media accounts and press releases, Open­AI’s DALL-E … 続きを読む →

This past July astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) released the deepest astronomical image ever obtained, leaving the world in awe. Against the background of a galaxy cluste … 続きを読む →

If the stars hadn’t aligned, two of the most remarkable spacecraft ever launched never would have gotten off the ground. In this case, the stars were actually planets—the four largest in the solar … 続きを読む →

I was preparing dinner, portioning a piece of cod, when a small, pink blemish appeared in the pristine white muscle of fish. Removing the splotch with a knife tip, I realized something was very wrong. … 続きを読む →