Science Jul 23 How concerned should we be about the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus? On Thursday, federal officials announced that the tropical Chikungunya mosquito-borne disease had been transmitted for the first time within the United States, infecting two Florida residents. What’s notable about these cases is that the people affected reported no recent…
Nation Jul 03 Hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma linked to injection wells Scientists are increasingly linking hundreds of earthquakes near Jones, Oklahoma to wastewater wells used in fracking operations.
Science Jul 02 Watch ideas light up a fish’s brain Scientists at the NIH are mapping the activity of thousands of individual neurons inside the brain of a zebrafish as the animal hunts for food. In a small, windowless room that houses two powerful electron microscopes, a scientist is searching…
Science Jun 11 Suffocating cells for science If you believe that all living things need oxygen to breathe, you’re not only wrong, but hopelessly human-centric. But don’t be too hard on yourself. Most mammals are biased toward multicellular organisms. It’s true that humans, along with mammals, birds,…
Science Jun 04 Looks like there’s a party in deep space and Hubble’s got the photos If a tractor full of confetti was launched into the night sky and then beamed with a strobe light, it might look something like the Hubble Space Telescope image above. It is, according to NASA, among the most colorful of…
Science May 15 Teenage girl’s 13,000-year-old wisdom tooth sheds light on early Native American origins The skeletal remains of a 13,000-year-old teenage girl pulled from an underwater cave below Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula provides fossil evidence for a persistent, but mostly resolved question on the descendants of early Americans.
Nation May 09 Three takes on disciplining your child, from toddler to teen We turned to three experts with different backgrounds and asked them how they would deal with a variety of real-world scenarios.
Science May 07 As species decline, so do the scientists who name them Quentin Wheeler’s career can be traced back to a fascination with pond scum. Now president of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Wheeler was 8 when he first peered through a microscope and saw the single-celled organisms known as…
Science Mar 26 Inside the box that might hold the answers to the missing jet Many of the answers to what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to veer off its flight path and vanish are contained in an unpressurized compartment in the tail of the missing airplane. With the search still ongoing, we wanted to…
Science Mar 20 A gas cloud collides with the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and we get to watch The landscape in Chile’s Atacama desert is Martian-like: dry, barren and flanked by volcanoes, and its high altitude and unpolluted skies make it a prime spot for stargazing. It was there, after a full night of such observation — and…