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Selfish or selfless? Human nature means you’re both

Staff Writer - March 18, 2021

Keith Yoder, University of Chicago and Jean Decety, University of Chicago Looking out for number one has been important...

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Many physicians who aren’t U.S. citizens come to the U.S. to do medical residency programs. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

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How new foreign worker visa fees might worsen doctor shortages in...

Staff Writer - October 17, 2025

Patrick Aguilar, Washington University in St. Louis There are almost 1.1 million licensed physicians in the United States. That...

A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened. Bettmann/Getty Images

Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary: How a technological marvel for trade changed...

October 15, 2025

The Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

October 15, 2025

Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a rope, that look similar to tornadoes on Earth. NOAA, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti and Chip Manchester

‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...

October 13, 2025

Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH. Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T

Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...

October 11, 2025