Everyone wants to be “in” with the popular crowd — even if the people in that crowd aren’t all that nice. Just as Regina George was the “it” girl in…
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Kizzmekia Corbett Unlocked the Science of the Covid Vaccine
“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. Kizzmekia Corbett had gone home to North Carolina for the holidays in 2019 when the headlines began…
A Science Reporter Asks: ‘Where Are the Aliens?’
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Since 2000, Kenneth Chang has covered a lot of news…
Computer Science Students Face a Shrinking Big Tech Job Market
In the past, tech companies used their internship programs to recruit promising job candidates, extending offers to many students to return as full-time employees after graduation. But this year, those…
Bill Nye The Science Guy’s at-home essentials
Bill Nye isn’t exactly a doomsday prepper, but that doesn’t mean he’s not greatly worried about climate change and what that means for the future of our planet. The science…
A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science
In 2020, an artificial intelligence lab called DeepMind unveiled technology that could predict the shape of proteins — the microscopic mechanisms that drive the behavior of the human body and…
Startling new science reveals the truth about chronic pain
That’s not something you’d expect to hear from a doctor, especially one with the bona fides of Haider Warraich, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital physician and assistant professor at Harvard…
William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music?
However, Herschel was unwilling to entertain a move to the busy but musically competitive London. So, after a brief stint as organist of Halifax Parish Church in West Yorkshire —…
London’s Science Museum Surveys Cancer’s History and Treatment
LONDON — With so many lives affected by cancer — in the United States alone, about 40 percent will receive a cancer diagnosis during their lives — it might be…