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...
We transformed living cells into tiny lasers
Matjaž Humar, Harvard Medical School and Seok-Hyun Yun, Harvard Medical School
In the last few decades, lasers have become an important part of...
New Horizons brought our last ‘first look’ at one of the original nine solar...
Joseph Tatarewicz, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Carl Sagan famously said we were the luckiest generation, to be present during the first reconnaissance of the...
Musical training can accelerate brain development and help with literacy skills
Amy Spray, University of Liverpool
The notion that musical training can have positive effects on cognitive functions other than music has long been a source...
