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On the 11th floor of a nondescript office building on 57th street in Manhattan, pipette-wielding technicians in white lab coats hunch over glass vials and digital scales, carefully concocting perfumes. This is the Experimental Lab at Givaudan,…

Doctors have been drilled for decades on the four big risks for heart disease, which kills more Americans every year than any other illness. The fearsome foursome: hypertension, smoking, high levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol and type 2…

When astronauts first step onboard commercial space stations, the experience will be unlike anything they’ve encountered before. They could find wood paneling and warm interiors, next-generation sleeping pods, large windows for a stunning view…

ARTIFICIAL UNCERTAINTY

In the opening paragraph of “Our Robotic Future,” Ben Guarino presents three potential future scenarios in which robots perform particular tasks. I found this section chilling. I would hate to be the elderly person who…

Queen Caroline Murat of Naples, a younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, is credited with wearing the world’s first wristwatch: an oval-shaped face with a silver dial, attached to a bracelet made of hair and golden threads. Presented to the…

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of refrigeration pumps, Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Jiaruo Li was crafting a new device for storing digital…

Operating since 1903, Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Mine near Salt Lake City remains one of the most productive mines in the world, where workers pulled 134,000 metric tons of copper from the earth last year, along with significant amounts of gold,…

When I first took up birding, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I couldn’t believe I had only just discovered, in middle age, the joys of avian observation. It was the perfect hobby. I could watch birds anywhere. And I could do it…

Divide this grid into four identical, nonoverlapping shapes along the square boundaries. Each shape must contain two of the same letters.

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There are four different solutions, which differ only slightly from one another.

For Lawrence J. Geisse, M.D.

Entering the operating theater,
 I climbed onto the gurney
resting my head
      on the mock headrest

a geisha dreaming
 on a woodblock.
The whine of the machine’s…