How does aging affect athletic performance?
Christopher Minson, University of Oregon
I remember the moment a few years ago while watching TV when I realized that if I were riding in...
In focus: New Horizons’ crisp images shed new light on the origins of Pluto...
Scott Kenyon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Eighty-five years after Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, we’re finally getting an up-close and personal look, thanks to NASA’s New...
Sepsis: the largely unknown condition that puts one million people in the hospital each...
Hallie Prescott, University of Michigan and Theodore Iwashyna, Monash University
Most Americans have never heard of it, but according to new federal data, sepsis is...
Should there be a dress code for doctors?
Vineet Chopra, University of Michigan and Sanjay Saint, University of Michigan
If you live near a hospital, you’ve probably seen the sight: a young physician...
After school shootings, students fare poorly in math, English
Louis-Philippe Beland, Louisiana State University and Dongwoo Kim, University of Missouri-Columbia
While school shootings have received widespread media attention, their impact on enrollment and...
Should female faculty get bonus points to correct for gender bias in student evaluations?
Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University
Now that most colleges and universities have completed their spring semesters, course instructors are opening up sealed manila envelopes, all...
Curriculum matters when it comes to kindergarten friendships
Lori E Meyer, University of Vermont and Michaelene M Ostrosky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friendship is often described as a major outcome of early...
The trouble with using synthetic rhino horn to stop poaching
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
In 2014, one rhino was killed every eight hours. That was in South Africa alone, where most of the world’s...
