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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) strikes without warning. The condition, which strips nerve cells of their ability to interact with the body’s muscles, starts painlessly, with subtle initial symp … 続きを読む →

At the heart of our Milky Way and of virtually every other large galaxy lurks a deep cosmic mystery—a supermassive black hole. Squeezing millions to billions of times more mass than our sun into reg … 続きを読む →

Burrowed deep under the foothills near Palo Alto, Calif., scientists scurried through an underground laboratory, making final preparations for a series of explosions. Their plan: blow up tiny crystals … 続きを読む →

Growing up poor does more than deprive a billion children and adolescents worldwide of basic material necessities. Poverty places the young child’s brain at much greater risk of not going through th … 続きを読む →

In the summer of 2015 Governor Greg Abbott gave the Texas State Guard an unusual order: keep an eye on the Jade Helm 15 exercise, just in case the online rumors are true. In reality, Jade Helm 15 was … 続きを読む →

On a day in October 2006, I sat in a dark laboratory at Yale University and zoomed into the fossilized ink of a 200-million-year-old squid relative under an electron microscope. An ocean of translucen … 続きを読む →

On march 21, 2013, the European Space Agency held an international press conference to announce new results from a satellite called Planck. The spacecraft had mapped the cosmic microwave background (C … 続きを読む →

More than 30 years after scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, we still have not managed to devise an effective vaccine against the virus. An array of drugs can usually keep the infection un … 続きを読む →

One spring morning Panagiotis Kefalas was in the tavern he owned in the tiny Greek village of Antia when he received a call from his friend Kyria Koula. Kefalas was planning to have breakfast at her h … 続きを読む →

All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare wrote, and physicists tend to think that way, too. Their stage happens to be space itself, and to them, space sometimes seems like a mere backdrop to the acti … 続きを読む →

Tens of thousands of people around the world receive organ transplants every year. Although the medical know-how for transplanting organs has expanded rapidly, the number of donated organs has lagged. … 続きを読む →

Our nervous system is like a tapestry of sorts, woven with interconnecting threads. These threads, the thin fibers known as axons that extend out from neurons, carry electrical information from indivi … 続きを読む →

I was walking out of a classroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students and I had been talking about the way planets form, when I was stopped by my colleague Ben Weiss. He studie … 続きを読む →

On a knob of rock in the Cook Strait known as North Brother Island, a population of the lizardlike creature called the tuatara is quickly becoming all male. When scientists examined the imbalance in t … 続きを読む →