Alan Burdick

Oct 12, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alan Burdick |Katrina Miller

Technology observers have grown increasingly vocal in recent years about the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the human variety. A.I. models can write and talk like us, draw and paint like us, crush us at chess and Go. They express an unnerving simulacrum of creativity, not least where the truth is concerned. A.I. is coming for science, too, as this week's Nobel Prizes seemed keen to demonstrate.

May 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alan Burdick

After years underground, periodical cicadas - insects of the genus Magicicada - are emerging by the trillions across more than a dozen states to molt, sing, court and mate. A casual human listener could mistake their collective chorus for the sound of a U.F.O. landing:But to the individual cicada, what's underway is a courtship ritual as intimate and intricate as a tango. The stakes are high; the potential missteps are many.

May 7, 2024 | go.aps.org | Alan Burdick

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The moment has arrived. After years underground, periodical cicadas — insects of the genus Magicicada — are emerging by the trillions across more than a dozen states to molt, sing, court and mate.

Apr 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Christopher Maag |Ian Austen |Katrina Miller |Ben Shpigel |Alan Burdick |Michael Roston | +8 more

People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow, the last time it will pass through so much of the continent until the 2040s.

Feb 13, 2024 | eltiempo.com | Alan Burdick

La historia del Bosque de las Historias Inmortales comienza en el 2019, cuando Elena-Mirela Cojocaru, la esposa de Ion Cojocaru, Alcalde de Nucsoara, una aldea en Rumania, murió de cáncer. El mismo Cojocaru pronto enfermó de un mal cardiaco; como remedio, su médico le dijo que caminara por el campo, 6 mil o más pasos al día. Nucsoara y sus mil 200 habitantes residen en las laderas de los Cárpatos, hogar de aproximadamente dos tercios del bosque virgen que queda en Europa.