Removing greenhouse gases from the air
These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works
Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University
Two centuries...
Antibiotic resistance is at a crisis point
– government support for academia and Big Pharma to find new drugs could help defeat superbugs
Andre Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Antibiotic resistance poses one of...
US planning for wind energy expansion
Biden calls for a big expansion of offshore wind – here’s how officials decide where the turbines may go
David Cash, University of Massachusetts Boston
The Biden...
The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how...
Steven D. Munger, University of Florida
Humans rely on our senses to tell us about the world. Which way is that waterfall? Is it day...
50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside...
50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company
Edmund...
Kids and Socializing Online
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Social networking sites, chat rooms, virtual worlds, and blogs are how teens and tweens socialize online; it's important to help your...
Environmental DNA: ecologists powerful new tool
Scientists at work: We use environmental DNA to monitor how human activities affect life in rivers and streams
Marie Simonin, Inrae and Emily S. Bernhardt, Duke...
Lack of infrastructure holding back electric vehicles.
Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why
Paul N. Edwards, Stanford University
Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape
Karen Fox / Josh Handal JPL NASA
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this 360-degree view on July 3,...
Scientists’ most powerful technologies have been borrowed from nature
From CRISPR to glowing proteins to optogenetics – scientists’ most powerful technologies have been borrowed from nature
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College
Watson and Crick, Schrödinger and...
