Tag: science
The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation...
Adam Meyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Kristy Ferraro, University of Michigan
Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and...
Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...
Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder
A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near...
Winter Olympians often compete in freezing temperatures – physiology and advances...
Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame and Gabriel R. Burks, University of Notre Dame
The Winter Olympics and Paralympics...
Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009...
Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University
In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including...
Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting...
Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College
After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or...
Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom...
Volha Chykina, University of Richmond; David P. Baker, Penn State; Frank Fernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Justin J.W. Powell, University of Luxembourg
New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the...
Kai R. Larsen, University of Colorado Boulder; Roman Lukyanenko, University of Virginia, and Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College
Technological...
James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from...
Andor J. Kiss, Miami University
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
