Astronomers Detect Complex Sugar in Interstellar Gas
A sugar detected in a Milky Way gas cloud has feeds declaring alien life; the gap is whether an ingredient upstream of biology counts as evidence of biology.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
Major League Fastballs Reach Record 94.7 MPH
Six pitchers now average 100-plus mph and feeds read it as pure progress; AP documents the velocity to a tenth but never proves a single line from speed to a torn elbow.
Archaeologists Name an Eighth-Century Maya Mathematician
Take only the lone-genius version of Sak Tahn Waak and you miss the real shift: a Maya culture moving authority from spoken word to a signed, written claim.
Injuries Rewrite Baseball's All-Star Lineups
Half the All-Star card was injury replacements, so Monday's lineup measures who's healthy in mid-July, not who's best -- the real story is second-half availability.
Congo Ebola Count Reaches Nearly 2,000 Confirmed Cases
The 2,000-case headline reads like a vaccine problem, but the workers paid to stop Ebola just walked off over unpaid wages -- containment is failing at the payroll, not the lab.