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...
Low-cost sensors track CO2 where it counts
Alexis Shusterman, University of California, Berkeley
Earlier this summer, climate change was once again thrust into the global limelight, this time by an unlikely source...
You should really be nicer to your colleagues – rude behavior is contagious
Trevor Foulk, University of Florida
We experience rudeness and incivility all the time. From simple insults and offhand remarks to purposely excluding others from groups,...
