Entertainment & Arts
This, in case you have been off the planet, is the year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death.
June 17, 1991
World & Nation
The researchers altered genomes to create ‘designer mice,’ which are key to developing medical treatments.
Oct. 9, 2007
Archives
IT’S EASY TO FEEL like Alice in Wonderland when you’re wearing a Calvo hat by Ombretta Capecchi.
Aug. 26, 1990
Booster Shots
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May 28, 2010
Science & Medicine
University of Utah researchers have developed a new genetic engineering technique that may allow scientists to selectively modify or replace defective genes.
Nov. 24, 1988
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: — 2011: American Bruce Beutler and French researcher Jules Hoffmann for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity, sharing it with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity. — 2010: British researcher Robert Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization. — 2009: Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, research that has implications for cancer and aging research. — 2008: Harald zur Hausen and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for discoveries of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer and the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus. — 2007: Mario R.
March 20, 2019
Movies
Everything you need to know about Eros/Starfox, Pip the Troll and what their “Eternals” appearance could mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Nov. 5, 2021
Ordinarily, it is easy to dismiss Massenet’s “Werther” as a soggy piece of romantic puffery.
Oct. 18, 1985
The first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid will take a one-way trip to its surface Feb. 12, crashing into the boulder-strewn asteroid Eros at about 7 mph, NASA said.
Feb. 1, 2001
Terence McEwen may have left his post as general director of the San Francisco Opera.
Oct. 21, 1988