What do you do after you’ve been to the Moon and back? If you are the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission, you can meet the president of the United States and the Canadian prime minister, and even talk show host Oprah Winfrey. The Artemis II flight in April captured the world’s attention when four
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A farmer in rural India takes a photograph of a dying plant. He wants to research it on the Internet but he doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to do it. That’s the kind of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is trying to solve by building an open, public AI infrastructure. In February at
To help you land a job in the industry, explain the skills you learned in the lab in terms that industry recruiters understand.Credit: Portrait/Getty I loved the intellectual challenge of my PhD and the idea that my research on immune cells in human skin could one day contribute to better patient care. But the lonely
the problem Dear Nature, I’m a PhD student whose research involves euthanizing healthy mice, usually via cervical dislocation, which basically means breaking the animals’ necks as quickly and painlessly as possible. I love my field and knew that working with animals would be part of my job when I started my PhD. I try to
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the world in February 2020, Linda Guamán, a microbiologist at the UTE University of Quito, was ready to serve her country. Ecuador announced its first case on February 29 and the disease spread rapidly. Guayaquil, the country’s largest city, was especially hard hit. Hospitals, funeral homes and mortuaries
