What We're Reading

The American Society of Microbiology announced 109 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the ASM.

AAAS fellow and molecular biologist Maryam Zaringhalam argues that exposure to the “how” and “why” of science can help prepare aspiring scientists for the rigors of independent inquiry.

Former particle physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that scientists have not been forthcoming in the limitations of CERN's Large Hadron Collider and a new proposed collider — in that, aside from the discovery of the Higgs boson, they are not likely to find anything new.

The World Health Organization has ranked vaccine hesitancy — the growing resistance to widely available lifesaving vaccines — as one of the top 10 health threats in the world for 2019. The Times editorial board lists a few ways to combat the anti-vaxers.

Magnetic north has recently shifted toward Siberia at a pace of 20 kilometers a year, but scientists have been unable to post an emergency update of the World Magnetic Model, used by cellphone GPS systems and military navigators.

A vast analysis tackles a defining question of the digital age. The answer? It's complicated.

Does the language you speak influence how you think? A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception.

A huge flare from a black hole helps reveal how matter and energy are expelled.

After training on 17,000 publicly available photos of patients affected by more than 200 rare disorders, a computer program called DeepGestalt learned to recognize facial features linked to hundreds of genetic syndromes.

The shutdown, now in its third week, has emptied some laboratories, forced scientists from the field, upended important conferences, imperiled the flow of grant money and disrupted careful planning of time-sensitive studies.