22 articles from SATURDAY 17.9.2022

‘I was lacking deeper connection’: can online friends be the answer to loneliness?

People you don’t see face to face can still provide a communityI was raised not to talk to strangers. Strangers, I was taught as a child, are people we’ve never met before, therefore we don’t know them. Childhood me would have been horrified to know that, now in my 30s, I frequently engage with complete randoms without giving it much thought. I’m not just talking about shop staff who make...

Astronomer Virginia Trimble: ‘There were 14 women on the Caltech campus when I arrived in 1964’

As her book of essays by female astronomers is published, the veteran scientist reflects on her career as an astronomy prodigy, the face of the Twilight Zone and Richard Feynman’s life modelVirginia Trimble, 78, is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, whose astronomy career spans more than 50 years. She has studied the structure and evolution of stars,...