Noted Yale University physiologist Ethan R. Nadel, who was the director of the Yale-affiliated John B. Pierce Laboratory, died Dec. 26 of cancer at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was professor of epidemiology and public health and of cellular and...
In the Greek myth of Phaethon, the chariot of the Sun inadvertently drives too close to the Earth, creating the Sahara desert with its scorching heat. Whether that myth is based in some small part on observations of a “superflare” emanating from the Sun...