Sometimes science simply cannot be rushed, though. There is some sort of serendipity to the scientific enterprise, Gonsalves told me. The speed and scale of what is happening now could be just a prelude to the chance discoveries we're going to have t...
Science on the frontier always exposes how little is known, even by the putative experts, so these phone calls made it clear to me how far we have to go. Still, it was nice to hear that a lot of scientists were looking for answers. 尖端科学总会揭...
Fauci's worst nightmare? I could barely get to sleep. 这只是福奇最糟的恶梦？我可是几乎无法入眠。 As this pandemic threatens the entire world, the fight against it has been a very public one. The average citizen is getting insight...
Make no mistake: The challenge is huge and unprecedented. If a typical virus is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 is all that and more. It combines contagiousness and lethality in a ferocious mixture...
Which was it, then? Surface transmission or aerosols? Should we be more afraid of contaminated elevator buttons or people breathing near us? Did scientists even know? 那么何者为真？是接触传播还是气溶胶传播？是受污染的电梯按钮...
If a theme runs through the books and articles I've written over the past 40 years, it's a fascination with what scientists have learned about the human body. A long career spent explaining biomedical research has led me to a deep respect for the sci...
Dad's map, of course, is still out there -- but chances are slim to zero that the Pioneers or Voyagers carrying it will be intercepted. Though all four spacecraft are on interstellar trajectories, space is big, and the next stellar systems on the hor...
Scott's new map is a GPS for the ages. It navigates to Earth using pulsars both inside and outside the Milky Way, with a twist. 斯考特的新地图是能恒久使用的GPS。它运用银河系以内及以外的脉冲星导航至地球。 Instead of...
Several years ago, two significant things happened. I found the original, penciled-in pulsar map, folded away and casually tucked into a tomato box in my parents' closet. And I linked up with a rock climber named Scott Ransom, one of the world's more...
Appropriately, Dad's pulsar map looks like a fancy asterisk, a radial explosion of hatched lines that intersect at our solar system's location. Briefly, here's how his map works: 父亲的脉冲星地图，看起来很像一个漂亮的星号，影线呈...
