A Wedding With an Undeniable Force

On a November evening in 2016, Bianca Hernandez attended Star Wars night at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In a room where costumed people jousted with lightsabers, she met Frank Knight, who was staffing a table while his friend took a bathroom break. “There’s this thing in fandom where dudes test your…

A Funny Thing Happened at the College Reunion

Alexis Branagan and Patrick Ryan arrived separately at the Cloister Inn eating club at Princeton in June 2017. Although they didn’t know each other, Ms. Branagan, 31, who graduated from Princeton in 2011, and Mr. Ryan, 34, who graduated in 2009, were all-too familiar with the annual Princeton reunions event, which Ms. Branagan was attending…

A Librarian and a Listener Wed

In fall 2019, Portia Carryer was mourning the loss of her beloved dog, a German shepherd named Rilke. That’s when Rory Jelinski made her presence felt. “Rory is not a huge dog person, but when Rilke passed away, she was there for me,” said Ms. Carryer (left), 32, a teen librarian for the San Leandro…

Automated AI algorithm uses routine imaging to predict cardiovascular risk

Coronary artery calcification — the buildup of calcified plaque in the walls of the heart’s arteries — is an important predictor of adverse cardiovascular events like heart attacks. Coronary calcium can be detected by computed tomography (CT) scans, but quantifying the amount of plaque requires radiological expertise, time and specialized equipment. In practice, even though…

Remdesivir disrupts COVID-19 virus better than other similar drugs

In the treatment of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, antiviral drug remdesivir has emerged as a promising candidate. Remdesivir works by disrupting the virus’s ability to replicate, but its exact mechanism has remained a mystery. Using advanced computational simulations, researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago have…