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When medical workers behave badly during disease outbreaks, everyone suffers
During high-stress deadly epidemics, even well-trained responders can get caught up in behaviors that are more harmful than helpful.AP Photo/Olivier MatthysWhen a deadly infectious disease takes hold...
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Attacks against elections are inevitable – Estonia shows what can be done
The March 3, 2019, elections in Estonia were well-defended against anti-democracy influences.AP Photo/Raul MeeKremlin-backed attackers are working to influence the upcomingEuropean Parliament...
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Last of the giants: What killed off Madagascar's megafauna a thousand years ago?
A modern mouse lemur *Microcebus* sits upon the cranium of an extinct *Megaladapis* lemur.Dao Van Hoang www.daovanhoang.comGiant 10-foot-tall elephant birds, with eggs eight times larger than an...
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Microbes that live in fishes' slimy mucus coating could lead chemists to new...
Drug discovery can get an assist from what nature's already devised.Annie Spratt/Unsplash, CC BYOne day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to the tiny...
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Is it the end of 'statistical significance'? The battle to make science more...
Some scientists think it's time to hang up statistical significance.mariakraynova/Shutterstock.comThe scientific world is abuzz following recommendations by two of the most prestigious scholarly...
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Anti-vaxxers appear to be losing ground in the online vaccine debate
Scientific evidence is clear: Vaccination is good for people and society. Online discussions are increasingly reflecting that reality.gorillaimages/Shutterstock.comAs measles outbreaks spread across...
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Brain scan evidence in criminal sentencing: A blessing and a curse
Which way does neurobiological evidence tip the scales in sentencing?Alexander Kirch/Shutterstock.comBrain evidence is playing an increasing role in criminal trials in the United States. An analysis...
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3 times political conflict reshaped American mathematics
International forces advancing toward Boxer soldiers outside the Imperial Palace in Beijing, China, during the Boxer Rebellion.Library of CongressWars. Politics. Dynasties. Nationalism. Although...
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What your pet's microchip has to do with the Mark of the Beast
An almost invisible electronic device used all over the world – best known to much of the public for helping reunite lost pets and their owners, but also found in subway cards, electronic tolling,...
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Want to understand accented speakers better? Practice, practice, practice
If the goal is to communicate, why should the speaker bear all the burden?Mimi Thian/Unsplash, CC BYConversation is at the heart of people’s lives. We use language to communicate our hopes and dreams...
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Using computers to crack open centuries-old mathematical puzzles
A snippet of 'Arithmetica,' from Diophantus.WikimediaIn mathematics, no researcher works in true isolation. Even those who work alone use the theorems and methods of their colleagues and predecessors...
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Genes and genealogy and making the most of famous relations
Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the United States.Steve Allen/Shutterstock.comDigging up one’s genealogical roots is second only to gardening in popularity as a hobby and can be much more...
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When Ebola and other epidemics strike, a dysfunctional 'outbreak culture'...
During high-stress deadly epidemics, even well-trained responders can get caught up in behaviors that are more harmful than helpful.AP Photo/Olivier MatthysWhen a deadly infectious disease takes hold...
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Calcium-munching bacteria could be a secret weapon against road salt eating...
Fixing cracks and potholes in concrete roads like this one may be easier with help from bacteria.Yaghoob Farnam, CC BY-SABacteria, which have been working for millennia as nature’s stonemasons, could...
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Female astronauts: How performance products like space suits and bras are...
Anne McClain of NASA runs through procedures in the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft during a vehicle fit check Nov. 20. NASA/Victor Zelentsov, CC BY-NDOn my first day of spring break, I woke up to way more...
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Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors – soon it will be...
Is this face just an assembly of computer bits?PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock.comWhen artificial intelligence systems start getting creative, they can create great things – and scary ones....
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Are astronauts worth tens of billions of dollars in extra costs to go to Mars?
What makes more sense: Sending a human or a robot to Mars?Juergen Faelchle/Shutterstock.comAs society contemplates going to the moon or Mars, there’s a rising debate as to whether it’s worth spending...
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Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors
Planes have many sensors, supplying all kinds of useful data.vaalaa/Shutterstock.comThe apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a...
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The replication crisis is good for science
Some studies don't hold up to added scrutiny. PORTRAIT IMAGES ASIA BY NONWARIT/shutterstock.comScience is in the midst of a crisis: A surprising fraction of published studies fail to replicate when the...
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What makes the Impossible Burger look and taste like real beef?
An Impossible Burger sidewalk sign in San Francisco. Chris Allan/Shutterstock.comPeople eat animals that eat plants. If we just eliminate that middle step and eat plants directly, we would diminish our...
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