Tag: science
How coronavirus contact tracing works in a state Dr. Fauci praised...
Jenny Meredith, University of South Carolina
After weeks of keeping people home to “flatten the curve,” restrictions on U.S. businesses are loosening and the coronavirus...
You don’t need to worry about spreading the coronavirus with cash
Marilyn Roberts, University of Washington
Some people worry that cash may be spreading the coronavirus.
Earlier this year, both China and South Korea began sterilizing their...
Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment...
Erick Leite Bastos, Universidade de São Paulo
What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences...
Buildings grown by bacteria — new research is finding ways to...
Wil Srubar, University of Colorado Boulder
Buildings are not unlike a human body. They have bones and skin; they breathe. Electrified, they consume energy, regulate...
EPA’s proposed ‘secret science’ rule directly threatens children’s health
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
The Trump administration is working to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and...
Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change
Steven D. Allison, University of California, Irvine and Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine
Large wildfires in the Arctic and intense heat waves in Europe...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
