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Chantrell Frazier, Framingham State University; Kenneth G. Furton, Florida International University, and Vidia A. Gokool, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Flesh-eating bacteria infections are on the rise in the US − a microbiologist explains...
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing...
20 years after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus,’ a generation of African writers have...
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto...
The long road to a new malaria vaccine, told by the scientists behind the...
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation
The world has waited decades for a malaria vaccine, and...
Tracking daily step counts can be a useful tool for weight management – an...
Bob Buresh, Kennesaw State University
Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and...
I love swords, so I designed a course on how to use them to...
Lancing C. England, University of Tennessee
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science
Emily Midkiff, University of North Dakota
Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences...
Gut microbes are the community within you that you can’t live without – how eating...
Christopher Damman, University of Washington
The age-old adage “you are what you eat” holds profound truth. Nearly every molecule...
