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Alan Alda was runNing for his life. The actor, best known for his role on the television series M*A*S*H, wasn’t on a set. This threat was real—or at least it felt that way. So when he saw … 続きを読む →

For many people, an infection with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is little more than a troublesome cold. But the virus poses a serious danger to young infants, older adults and immunocompromise … 続きを読む →

Breaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I’m thinking of is called “lepton flavor uni … 続きを読む →

A quarter of a century ago a conjecture shook the world of theoretical physics. It had the aura of revelation. “At first, we had a magical statement ... almost out of nowhere,” says Mark Van Raams … 続きを読む →

No one yet knows how ChatGPT and its artificial-intelligence cousins will transform the world, and one reason is that no one really knows what goes on inside them. Some of these systems’ abilities g … 続きを読む →

Roughly 1,200 tornadoes strike the U.S. during an average year. They’re prevalent in the U.S.—far more so than anywhere else in the world—because its geography sets up the perfect conditions, es … 続きを読む →

On June 25, 2022, Esteban Chavez, Jr., started his day like any other, ­working his route in Pasadena, Calif., as a driver for UPS. But the city was in the middle of an intense heat wave, and by mida … 続きを読む →

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I want … 続きを読む →

Every spring I bring my students to the desert of northwestern New Mexico, just north of Chaco Canyon, where the ancestral Pueblo people built a great city out of rocks a millennium ago. As we hike ac … 続きを読む →

In December 2022 scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a breakthrough in the decades-long effort to create an energy source based on the same nuclear fusion reactions that … 続きを読む →

The prairie vole is a small Midwestern rodent known for shacking up and settling down, a tendency that is rare among mammals. Mated pairs form bonds, share a nest and raise young together. In the lab … 続きを読む →

Long before our ancestors evolved large brains and language, even before they tamed fire or made stone tools, they started doing something no mammal had done before: walking on two legs. Skeletal adap … 続きを読む →

If there is life elsewhere in our solar system, Jupiter’s large icy moons are a pretty good bet on where to find it. … 続きを読む →

Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She went on to co … 続きを読む →