Every so often in the Florida Keys, where coral reefs teem with marine life, an orange haze coats the sunset in the horizon – a fog of Saharan dust that wafts directly from Africa. The desert dust ...

The West Coast of the United States, ranging from northern Washington to the Mexican border, faced one of the most devastating fire seasons ever in 2020. Fire season occurs during the hottest and ...

A rapidly changing climate is expected to shift where species live. This will also alter human activities like agriculture and forest conservation, as the ranges of plant pathogens change. Scientists ...

It is common practice to apply an ice pack to a sprained ankle or a sore muscle, and many professional athletes have been reported to use cryotherapy to aid with recovery. However, the benefits of the ...

The Senses In this humorous, detailed, yet still accessible book, neuroscientist and illustrator Matteo Farinella takes the reader on a wild ride through key figures and fascinating facts about each ...

We all encounter stress in our daily lives, but new research is revealing that the way you respond to stress and adverse experiences may be inherited from your parents. Paternal exposure to stressors ...

On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame Cathedral caught fire and burned for nine hours. But long after the fire was extinguished, environmental effects lingered. That’s because the cathedral contained 460 ...

This is a really interesting walk through the foundations of neuroscience. But I somewhat disagree with one of the authors’ main assertions, where they claim that researchers focus primarily on the ...

Sandwiched inside your laptop, at the back of your smartphone, and under the hood of your dream electric car are powerful and lightweight lithium-ion batteries. Even though these batteries are found ...

Mathematician, inventor, and friend of Marie Curie, Hertha Ayrton was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights in science and in the voting booth. Her Ayrton fan dispelled toxic fumes from WWI ...

No one knows for sure where SARS-CoV-2 came from. I don’t know, no one does. But there are two ideas. The first is the virus was harbored by an unknown animal, likely bats, where it mutated and picked ...

Great article, Natalia! I think the quote from Ben Green really nails the heart of this issue: even if we could somehow make a perfectly “fair” risk assessment, it would still be created on the basis ...