Connor May originally planned to propose to Kaitlin Brown, his girlfriend of three years at the time, after they had finished swimming 1.2 miles, cycling 56 miles and running 13.1 miles together. Competing in a half-Ironman triathlon, he thought, would be an important milestone and a fitting preamble to their engagement. Without revealing his ultimate…
It took him nine months. But on a rainy morning in March 2016, in the Rittenhouse neighborhood of Philadelphia, the man known as “the hot doctor” by all the girls on the block finally asked out the girl he apparently had noticed a few months after she had moved into the brownstone just one door…
In August 2019, Anna Freimuth, the daughter of Matthew Freimuth, was unofficially wed to one of her stuffed animals, a plush pink dog that has no name. Mr. Freimuth and his then-boyfriend, Adam Rogers, performed the ceremony, which was held on the back deck of a rented house in East Hampton, N.Y. Mr. Freimuth and…
Mason McDowell went to a Wichita, Kan., job fair in March 2020 expecting his hands to get sweaty and his throat to go dry for the usual reasons. The competition was considerable, and he hoped to walk out with an offer to put his elementary school teaching credentials to use. “I remember thinking, OK, I’m…
Damon Holick could hardly believe it when his mother called in April of 2021 to say she thought she saw a photo of him on television proposing to Erica Willard. She was right. The photo of Mr. Holick on one knee in front of Ms. Willard at the pier in the Woodlands, Texas, at Hughes…
Albert and I got together the old-fashioned way: A mutual friend introduced us at a summer house party. We were hovering near a kitchen counter laden with red Solo cups, handles of Hennessey, bottles of mixed fruit juices and a spread of Blow Pops. We didn’t say much during that first encounter. I kept stealing…
IMAGE: Jiyue Zhu (second from left) talks to members of his research team inside his laboratory on the WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus, including Ken Porter (far left), Sean Mcgranaghan (center),… view more Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, WSU Health Sciences Spokane The human body is essentially made up of trillions of living cells. It ages…
IMAGE: Betalain coloured roots view more Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi – called arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi – in the soil, which greatly expand their root surface area. This mutually beneficial interaction boosts the plant’s ability to take up nutrients that are vital for…
Many disease-causing bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa crawl on surfaces through a walk-like motility known as “twitching”. Nanometers-wide filaments called type IV pili are known to power twitching, but scientists ignore which sensory signals coordinate the microbes’ movements. Now, EPFL researchers have found that Pseudomonas bacteria use a mechanism similar to our sense of touch…
Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness when they are infected with the malaria parasite, while others carry the infection asymptomatically. An international team used mass cytometry – an in-depth way of characterising individual cells – and machine learning to discover ‘immune signatures’ associated with…