MONTPELIER, Vt. — The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back. In Vermont, Leila Wilson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, is one of the scientists leading an effort to beat Dutch elm disease, which has killed tens
Christopher Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey puts a 21st-century spin on Homer’s epic tale.Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures/Shutterstock In He OdysseyHomer records the first imaginings of autonomous ships guided by what appears to modern readers to be remarkably artificial intelligence. The ships of the Phaeacians, which carry Odysseus home to Ithaca, “know every city, every