A few months ago, I was helping my niece with her high school English homework. She had to write an essay about climate change — nothing...
Let me just say this up front: I wasn’t the kid who looked forward to school. I did okay, but the daily routine of notes, lectures,...
So, here’s a weird memory I can’t shake: My 9-year-old cousin, sitting cross-legged on the floor, trying to join her third-grade math class on a borrowed...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are...
Studies of a ‘future-proof’ vaccine candidate have shown that just one antigen can be modified to provide a broadly protective immune response in animals. The studies...
Late last year, Caltech researchers revealed that they had developed a new fabrication technique for printing microsized metal parts containing features about as thick as three...
Neuroblastomas can be devastating to children and their families and the treatments can be harsh. But thanks to scientists, some tadpoles and a little poetry, improved...
More than 50% of people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) in the North of England live with food insecurity, new research has found. This is considerably...
A near-total lack of transparency is making it impossible to assess the quality of corporate-led ecosystem restoration projects, a new study finds. The world’s largest corporations...
Every morning and afternoon, like clockwork, the surface of the Moon trembles with tiny “moonquakes.” Now, new analysis of seismic activity on the Moon has characterized...