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Sneaky lions in Zambia are moving across areas thought uninhabitable for them
Where has this Zambian lion been?Paula White, CC BY-NDZambia, a country in southeast Africa, has approximately 1,200 lions, one of the largest lion populations on the continent. More than 40% of the...
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Climate change is really about prosperity, peace, public health and posterity...
What will it take to get people to connect to the climate change story?mauro mora/Unsplash, CC BYThe story of climate change is one that people have struggled to tell convincingly for more than two...
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Curious Kids: Can people colonize Mars?
In the future, people may be able to go to Mars.Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.comCurious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
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Gut microbes can get you drunk and damage your liver
Drinking alcohol isn't the only cause of high blood alcohol levels.nikamoImagine that you’re a police officer. You spot a car ahead that is swerving all over the road. You pull the driver over and...
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Why I'm teaching kids science through the sport of rowing
The math behind the movement.Dmitrydesign/Shutterstock.comI didn’t know what the world looked like at 5:00 a.m. until my son began rowing for the Detroit Boat Club Crew, the oldest continuous rowing...
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Untangling tattoos' influence on immune response
A schoolteacher in the midst of receiving a full pe'a, the traditional Samoan tattoo generally worn by males.Christopher Lynn, CC BY-NDI lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking...
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What moons in other solar systems reveal about planets like Neptune and Jupiter
Exomoons orbiting an exoplanet outside our solar system.Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock.comWhat is the difference between a planet-satellite system as we have with the Earth and Moon, versus a binary planet –...
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Curious Kids: How do my eyes adjust to the dark and how long does it take?
Give yourself time and you can see in the dark.Anton Watman/Shutterstock.comCurious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
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Growing the big one – 6 tips for your own prize-winning tomatoes
Bigger, bigger, biggest.TheOldBarnDoor/Shutterstock.comWhen I answer my office phone as an extension vegetable specialist, from time to time it’s someone asking how they can get recognition for growing...
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Discovery of how cells sense oxygen levels earns Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel made his fortune through the invention of dynamite.Paramonov Alexander/Shutterstock.comOn the morning of Oct. 7, I woke up with the message from a colleague saying that “HIF got the 2019...
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Nobel Prize in Physics for two breakthroughs: Evidence for the Big Bang and a...
Artist's rendering of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet and its host, a star slightly more massive than our sun. Image credit:ESO/NASADid the universe really begin with a Big Bang? And if so, is there...
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Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct 'Hobbit' from Flores Island
An Indonesian island was home to _H. Floresiensis_ – but how did the dwarfed human species evolve?areza taqwim/Shutterstock.comIt’s not every day that scientists discover a new human species. But...
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Why don't more women win science Nobels?
All of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men. That’s a return to business as usual, after biochemical engineer Frances Arnold won in 2018, for chemistry, and Donna Strickland received...
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Lithium ion Nobel Prize shows how individual brainstorms add up to...
Lithium ion batteries store large amounts of power in small battery cells that can be recharged.Mile AtanasovNobel Prizes in Chemistry seem to rotate between novel compounds, revolutionary measurement...
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How the US census kickstarted America's computing industry
An employee creates punch cards using information from a filled in 1950 Census Population Form.U.S. Census BureauThe U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of...
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Quantum dots that light up TVs could be used for brain research
Red quantum dots glow inside a rat brain cell.Nanoscale Advances, 2019, 1, 3424 - 3442, CC BY-NDWhile many people love colorful photos of landscapes, flowers or rainbows, some biomedical researchers...
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Why a computer will never be truly conscious
What makes a brain tick is very different from how computers operate.Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock.comMany advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working towardbuilding a conscious...
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Why don't evergreens change color and drop their leaves every fall?
What's happening with the trees that stay green?BingHao/Shutterstock.comIt’s autumn in the Northern Hemisphere – otherwise known as leaf-peeping season. Now is when people head outside to soak up the...
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New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an...
The muck that's been accumulating at the bottom of this lake for 20,000 years is like a climate time capsule.Christopher R. Moore, CC BY-NDWhat kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?In...
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Sulfur pollution from coal and gas is insanely bad – but a new chemistry...
Sulfur pollution causes respiratory health problems.Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock.comIf humans created an emissions hall of shame, which pollutants would you nominate? Carbon dioxide and methane would...
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