By Olivia Harper Wilkins, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dickinson College This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. You may have heard the phrase “we are made of star-stuff.” This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements
By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster Antibiotic resistance is often associated with hospitals and the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. Both are genuine problems, but new research suggests another potential culprit that many people haven’t considered — droughts caused by climate change. A recent study published
Growing up, my brothers were fascinated by the first “Rocky” movie. They were trying to get stronger and excel in sports, so one scene stood out almost as much as Rocky sprinting up the museum steps: Before sunrise, Rocky cracked raw eggs into a glass and drank them. To a
When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears. When that energy reaches the ground, some of it is converted into seismic waves that ripple through the soil and
By Kim S. Bernard, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Oregon State University The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of an early closing. The
by Danny G. Winder, Professor and Chair of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School, and Marie Doyle, Instructor in Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School For some, abstaining from alcohol can subsequently increase compulsive drinking. Our research team found that, in abstaining mice, this urge to drink is preceded by changes in
by Arielle Zionts and Darius Tahir, KFF Health News HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — Two of the nation’s most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key role in solving rural America’s health challenges. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a panel of U.S. senators that AI nurses
by Paula Span, KFF Health News Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As
By H. Christopher Frey, Distinguished University Professor A new White House report argues that eight decades of science policy that helped make the United States the world’s scientific leader is too bureaucratic, too focused on institutions rather than outcomes, and in need of significant restructuring. Supporters see it as a
By Renee Dudley, ProPublica, with research by Doris Burke This story was originally published by ProPublica. On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing
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