Tag: science
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies
Adriana Briscoe, University of California, Irvine
An award-winning scientist and professor of evolutionary biology, Adriana Briscoe studies the evolution of vision in butterflies and how...
BREAKING NEWS — United States Senate confirms Keith Krach by unanimous...
Keith Krach has been confirmed by unanimous vote of the US Senate as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment and several other...
Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’
Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University
Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed, you could say this...
2015, the year that was: science and technology
Maggie Villiger, The Conversation
There are a number of definitions of science, as both a process and a body of knowledge. At root, it’s an...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on natural DNA repair
Benjamin Burke, University of Hull
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 has been awarded jointly to Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, USA’s Paul Modrich and Turkish-born...
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn’t start when….
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
Devon Stillwell, Johns Hopkins University
Angelina Jolie received much public attention for...
Talking to Mars: new antenna design could aid interplanetary communication
Jean Paul Santos, University of California, Los Angeles; Joshua M Kovitz, University of California, Los Angeles, and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles
When...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
