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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome (Published 2020)
A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977. In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The sample came from a 41-year-old man who worked at the seafood market in Wuhan where the first cluster of cases appeared. Researchers are now racing to make sense o
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Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Pence Breaks Tie (Published 2017)
Betsy DeVos had one of the most contentious confirmations in history. Calls inundated the Capitol, disrupting the Senate’s voice mail system. But, in a historic tiebreaking vote, Ms. DeVos became the next education secretary.CreditCredit...Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Betsy DeVos, a wealthy Republican donor with almost no experience in public education, was confirmed by the Senate as
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Rise of Saudi Prince Shatters Decades of Royal Tradition (Published 2016)
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince, has a hand in nearly all elements of Saudi policy.Credit...Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images He has slashed the state budget, frozen government contracts and reduced the pay of civil employees, all part of drastic austerity measures as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is buffeted by low oil prices. But last year, Mohammed bin Sa
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Scientists Find Form of Crispr Gene Editing With New Capabilities (Published 2016)
An electron micrograph of RNA polymerase molecules attached to DNA strands. A newly discovered form of Crispr may eventually be used to modify human RNA.Credit...Science Source Just a few years ago, Crispr was a cipher — something that sounded to most ears like a device for keeping lettuce fresh. Today, Crispr-Cas9 is widely known as a powerful way to edit genes. Scientists are deploying it in pro
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Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan (Published 2016)
President Obama spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash
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Opinion | The Ebola Outbreak (Published 2014)
Doctors Without Borders has described the Ebola epidemic sweeping across West Africa as “out of control.” The Ebola virus, which is fatal in 90 percent of cases, has killed more than 670 people in West Africa and spread to 60 locations in four countries. The obstacles to bringing the virus under control are formidable, among them a shortage of medical resources and resistance from local communitie
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Hanyu Falls Twice, but Still Wins Gold (Published 2014)
After a world record-setting short program performance, Yuzuru Hanyu, a teenager from Japan, fell twice in his free skate but still prevailed. Hanyu fell on the quadruple salchow. Composite image by The New York Times Yuzuru Hanyu Total score: 280.09 Hanyu became the first skater to break 100 points in a short program after receiving high marks for all his jumps, including a quadruple toe loop. Bu
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Seeing X Chromosomes in a New Light (Published 2014)
In a female mouse’s brain, a left-to-right pattern in the silencing of the X chromosome. These patterns may influence how individual brains function.Credit...Hao Wu and Jeremy Nathans/Cell Press The term “X chromosome” has an air of mystery to it, and rightly so. It got its name in 1891 from a baffled biologist named Hermann Henking. To investigate the nature of chromosomes, Henking examined cells
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Opinion | Japan’s Dangerous Anachronism (Published 2013)
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this month rammed through Parliament a state secrecy law that signals a fundamental alteration of the Japanese understanding of democracy. The law is vaguely worded and very broad, and it will allow government to make secret anything that it finds politically inconvenient. Government officials who leak secrets can be jailed for up to 10 years, and journa
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots (Published 2013)
Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot named WildCat can gallop at high speeds.Credit...Boston Dynamics SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass.
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Airlines Urged by U.S. to Give Notice to China (Published 2013)
WASHINGTON — Even as China scrambled fighter jets to enforce its newly declared air defense zone, the Obama administration said on Friday that it was advising American commercial airlines to comply with China’s demands to be notified in advance of flights through the area. While the United States continued to defy China by sending military planes into the zone unannounced, administration officials
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Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal (Published 2012)
In Spain, the unemployment rate is over 50 percent among young people.Credit...Samuel Aranda for The New York Times MADRID — On a recent evening, a hip-looking young woman was sorting through a stack of crates outside a fruit and vegetable store here in the working-class neighborhood of Vallecas as it shut down for the night. At first glance, she looked as if she might be a store employee. But no.
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Scientists Discover Heavy New Element - NYTimes.com
A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict. The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a r
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Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics (Published 2010)
A minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement. By late March, Mr. Armbruster, then 78, was dead. After a series of postsurgical complications, the final blow was a bloodstream infection that sent hi
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Fighting Trend, China Is Luring Scientists Home (Published 2010)
Shi Yigong, a Princeton University molecular biologist, rejected a prestigious $10 million grant to return to China in 2008.Credit...Shiho Fukada for The New York Times BEIJING � Scientists in the United States were not overly surprised in 2008 when the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland awarded a $10 million research grant to a Princeton University molecular biologist, Shi Yi
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