Love Dalén, Stockholm University and Anders Götherström, Stockholm University The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of…
Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Galen Barbose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds and flooding are likely to bring long-lasting power outages to large parts of Florida. The storm is…
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Patrick W. Keys, Colorado State University; Curtis Bell, US Naval War College;…
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation This episode of…
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University and Dennis Mücher, University of Guelph Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of…
David Godwin, University of Florida Wildfires fueled by dry, windy conditions have destroyed dozens of homes in Texas and threatened hundreds of others there and in Oklahoma and Florida this March. They’re…
Alex Gilbert, Colorado School of Mines and Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines As Western nations look for ways to reduce their reliance on Russian oil and gas, another aspect of the…
Albert C. Lin, University of California, Davis On Feb. 28, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in West Virginia v. EPA, a case that centers on the U.S. Environmental…
Amy Myers Jaffe, Tufts University The prospect of conflict between Russia and NATO countries over Ukraine has raised fears of an energy crisis in Europe. Russia provides nearly half of Europe’s natural…
Chris Impey, University of Arizona Space travel is all about momentum. Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites and science itself forward into space. 2021 was a year full…
Don Arnold, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130…
Bart Johnson, University of Oregon and David Hulse, University of Florida A wildfire burning in hot, dry mountain forest swept through the Gold Rush town of Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, reducing…
Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, University of Miami and Brian Haus, University of Miami Miami is all about the water and living life outdoors. Walking paths and parks line large stretches of downtown waterfront with…
Scott Denning, Colorado State University Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would make news in Death Valley, enormous fires…
