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Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other...

Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University and Zirui Zhai, Arizona State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Building robotic...

Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific...

Randy Stein, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Alexander Swan, Eureka College, and Michelle Sarraf, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona The Research Brief is a short...

To save threatened plants and animals, restore habitat on farms, ranches...

Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro; Claire Kremen, University of British Columbia; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Sandra...

A tiny circular racetrack for light can rapidly detect single molecules

Judith Su, University of Arizona The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea My Little Sensor Lab at the University of...

Black and Latino essential workers experience greater safety concerns than their...

Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Clare Hammonds, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst The Research Brief is a...

Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices

Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St Louis The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea In my synthetic chemistry lab,...

Marijuana fueled Colombian drug trade before cocaine was king

Lina Britto, Northwestern University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Long before Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel got rich supplying...

Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking...

Susan Sonnenschein, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Elyse R. Grossman, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Research Brief is a short take...

EXPLORING NATURE

When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data...

Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted...
A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

Can the world quit coal?