Antibiotic resistance doesn’t just make bacteria harder to kill – it can actually…
Antibiotic resistance doesn't just make bacteria harder to kill – it can actually make them stronger
Gerald Pier, Harvard Medical School and David Skurnik,...
Let’s hear it for carbs – Tour de France cyclists couldn’t do it without...
Matthew Haines, University of Huddersfield
The Tour de France is widely regarded as the most strenuous endurance endeavour in sport. Performance levels have become so...
How can we fulfill the promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Jean Crockett, University of Florida
In July 1990, President George H W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law in an action...
Renaissance on the bayou: the revival of a lost language
Daniel W Hieber, University of California, Santa Barbara
In the summer of 1930, at the dawn of the Great Depression, a 21-year-old linguist named Morris...
Pluto scientists were masters of the long haul — here’s how people stick with...
Bruce Barry, Vanderbilt University and Thomas Bateman, University of Virginia
It took almost a decade for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to navigate its way across...
Donald Trump supporters caught between respect for military and hatred of government
Donald Critchlow, Arizona State University
Donald Trump’s recent derogatory and off-the-wall attack on John McCain’s heroism, denigrating him because he was captured during the Vietnam...
Flood severity along US coastline has worsened
Thomas Wahl, University of South Florida and Shaleen Jain, University of Maine
Flooding is a well-known natural hazard along the US coastline. Nearly 40% of...
Hospitals are safer than home births – but only if you’re poor
N. Meltem Daysal, University of Southern Denmark; Mircea Trandafir, University of Southern Denmark, and Reyn van Ewijk, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Over the past...
