Tag: research
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
Yes, Black patients do want to help with medical research –...
Julia Liu, Morehouse School of Medicine and RaKetra Snipes, Morehouse School of Medicine
Clinical trial participants are predominantly white....
Expanding Alzheimer’s research with primates could overcome the problem with treatments...
Agnès Lacreuse, UMass Amherst; Allyson J. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Amanda M. Dettmer, Yale University
As of 2022,...
More than 1 in 5 US adults don’t want children
Zachary P. Neal, Michigan State University and Jennifer Watling Neal, Michigan State University
Fears about declining fertility rates have...
It’s getting harder for scientists to collaborate across borders – that’s...
Tommy Shih, Lund University
The United Nations and many researchers have emphasized the critical role international collaborative science plays...
What makes people willing to risk their lives to save others?
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
After an 18-year-old shooter murdered 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde,...
How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a...
Alyssa Collins, University of South Carolina
In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from...
Pollen season is getting longer and more intense with climate change...
Yingxiao Zhang, University of Michigan and Allison L. Steiner, University of Michigan
Brace yourselves, allergy suffers – new research...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
