Mysterious Steps, Explained...
At Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National Park, the mineral-rich waters flow over a surreal landscape of stepped terraces and ponds.
He Was a Teenage Spy,...
LONDON, July 17 — The problem with most movie action heroes, said Alex Pettyfer, who plays a teenage secret agent in the forthcoming film “Stormbreaker,” is that they are way too old.
Even Without an Alice, City...
Alexei Ratmansky’s “Russian Seasons,” which celebrated its premiere at New York City Ballet in June, is such a marvel of a dance that when the curtain fell, it was like awakening from a vivid dream....
In Riga, Creating an Identity...
IT’S 2 a.m. in Riga, and the cobbled streets of the Old Town are crowded. The pelmeni shop, where you can fill up on stuffed noodles (the ex-Soviet world’s answer to ravioli) for a dollar or two, is...
The Quest for the $1,000...
As part of an intensive effort to develop a new generation of machines that will sequence DNA at a vastly reduced cost, scientists are decoding a new human genome — that of James D. Watson, the...
