Despite research breakthroughs, an anti-aging pill is still a long way off
Sharon Horesh Bergquist, Emory University
Last month a team of doctors and scientists made the case to regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Which paintings were the most creative of their time? An algorithm may hold…
Which paintings were the most creative of their time? An algorithm may hold the answers
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
From Picasso’s The Young Ladies of Avignon...
Study predicts multi-meter sea level rise this century, but not everyone agrees
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
There’s a new study that’s getting a fair amount of attention in the climate science community and...
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...
