New York Times - Science

In 1995, he and Thomas Bopp spotted, from different states, the same mysterious object in the sky. What turned out to be a comet was named after them: Hale-Bopp.Alan Hale in 1997 with the telescope he had used a couple of years earlier to find the comet that would be known as Hale-Bopp.

He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to write the underlying code.

With machine learning and a high-resolution imaging robot, scientists measured and mapped the extent of Earth’s carbon circulatory system.

The shift in global weather patterns threatens to worsen floods and heat waves that were already intensifying because of climate change.Drought-stressed wheat in a field in Kansas last month.

Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself?Nancy Wexler a lifelong researcher of Huntington’s disease, who has the condition herself, in her Manhattan apartment.