Tag: Pittsburgh
Why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s closure exposes a growing threat to democracy
Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced on Jan. 7, 2026, that it will cease all operations...
The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio...
Carl Kurlander, University of Pittsburgh
It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young...
Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic...
Lacey W. Heinsberg, University of Pittsburgh and Amery Treble-Barna, University of Pittsburgh
A newly discovered biological signal in the...
Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science
Amy Wrobleski, Penn State
Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Utility Power Player Jake Elmore has made MLB history and baseball...
He's been right in front of you, all these years.
Fifteen. That's how many players have played all nine...
3 things I learned from teaching students about horror pioneer George...
Carl Kurlander, University of Pittsburgh
I’m no fan of horror movies. At least I wasn’t until I moved from Hollywood back to my hometown of...
On the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a look back...
Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh
During the half century that baseball was divided by a color line, black America created a sporting world of its...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
