California’s water paradox: why enough will never be enough
Doug Parker, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
These days,...
What is the ‘warm blob’ in the Pacific and what can it tell us...
Nicholas A Bond, University of Washington
People living across the US have lived through some odd weather in the past year. It’s been unusually warm...
Why we musn’t assume smoking and drinking only leads to certain cancers
Katie Newby, Coventry University
In a recent article in The Times Magazine, the notorious drug dealer Howard Marks talked about his terminal bowel cancer.
Howard Marks...
Bleed me: why excess iron can be dangerous
Richard Stevens, University of Connecticut
Iron is a most versatile element. It is essential to many of the enzymes that are the engines for life,...
Industrial corn farming is ruining our health and polluting our watersheds
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Last summer’s Lake Erie toxic algae outbreak shut down the water supply for almost half a million people in Toledo...
How can dark matter cause chaos on Earth every 30 million years?
Michael Rampino, New York University
In 1980, Walter Alvarez and his group at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered a thin layer of clay in...
Paid sick days and physicians at work: ancient Egyptians had state-supported health care
Anne Austin, Stanford University
We might think of state supported health care as an innovation of the 20th century, but it’s a much older tradition...
Thou art translated! How Shakespeare went viral
Alexa Huang, George Washington University
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when Peter Quince sees Bottom turned into an ass-headed figure, he cries in horror: “Bless...
