âStar Warsâ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft in the real world
A former intern at Audubon magazine and Atlantaâs NPR station, WABE 90.1 FM, he has reported a wide range of science stories for radio, print, and digital media.
Feverâs link with a key kind of immunity is surprisingly ancient
In one fish species, Nile tilapia, that behavioral â or sought-out â fever triggers the adaptive immune system, known for its acquired memory of specific bodily invaders, researchers report in the Dec. 24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Re-engineering where body meets machine
As a Black woman born in West Virginia in 1922, she was a contemporary of the Hidden Figures mathematician Katherine Johnson, and like her peer, Collins contended with both racism and sexism, which impeded her efforts to participate equally in the sciences and in society.
A new biography of Benjamin Franklin puts science at the forefront
Likewise, Franklinâs political views were dynamic â he argued forcefully that the colonies should remain loyal to Britain before embracing the calls for independence.
A single enzyme can alter the vibrant colors in parrot plumage
Previous research showed that a different enzyme called PKS makes red aldehyde-based psittacofulvins, says Joseph Corbo, a biologist and neuropathologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century
âWhen you deal with the scientific revolution, the triumph of the Copernican worldview, we know the big names,â says computational scientist JĂŒrgen Renn of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany, who was not involved in the new work.
The âDoes It Fly?â podcast separates fact from science fiction
Thatâs the premise â and tone â of the entertaining podcast Does It Fly?, hosted by astrophysicist and âmad scientistâ (his words) Hakeem Oluseyi and actress, writer and âpop culture expertâ Tamara Krinsky.
Saving Mexicoâs fir forests could help monarch butterflies
Local foresters from the Indigenous community in Calimaya planted oyamel fir seedlings on the Nevado de Toluca volcano in central Mexico as part of an experiment to see if the trees crucial to monarch butterfliesâ survival can thrive in new locations.
Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?
A large team of university researchers from Iowa, Texas and Kansas shared this conclusion in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change
If the conditions that preserved the Canadian log can be replicated â which is still unclear â buried biomass from discarded wood and sustainable harvesting could sequester up to 10 gigatons of carbon annually, the researchers estimate.
This researcher studies how misinformation seeps into science and politics
For instance, Ophir automated his analysis of over 5,000 articles about the H1N1, Ebola and Zika epidemics in four major newspapers: the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.
Painful paper cuts, predicted by science
She loves physics for its ability to reveal the secret rules about how stuff works, from tiny atoms to the vast cosmos.