MRIs Could Help Predict Whether Infants at High Risk Will Develop Autism
May 12, 2017
MRIs Could Help Predict Whether Infants at High Risk Will Develop Autism
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Radiation In Space Could Be Harmful to Far-Travelling Astronauts
Radiation in Space Could Be Harmful to Far-Travelling Astronauts
May 12, 2017
Star Trek makes it look so easy. In that universe, one can conquer physics by travelling at faster-than-possible warp speed, beat computing and math by disintegrating someone at one point and building them back up at another, and surpass laws of thermodynamics with phaser beams.
Friends and Family Could Sabotage Your Diet
Friends and family could sabotage your diet
May 10, 2017
When you’re trying to lose weight, there are often obstacles to overcome. My fiancée and I have been dieting and exercising to get ready for our wedding, and to just be healthier in general, but there always seems to be something that gets in the way.
The Iconic Earthrise Photo that Almost Never Happened
Have you ever had one of those days when almost nothing goes the way you planned and you just want to get away from it all?
I know, Southwest Airlines has an advertising campaign centered around that same theme, but nevertheless, you know the feeling.
It turns out, 1968 was an entire year like that. The Vietnam war was raging, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, and there were riots in many American cities.
Plants use only some colors in the solar spectrum
Now that biologists at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill have discovered that plants can detect shadows, a fair follow-up question might ask: When sunlight is shining on the plant, just how much of the solar light spectrum do plants use in photosynthesis?
Duke researchers may have found the recipe for better safe fuel
Duke researchers may have found the recipe for better safe fuel
April 21, 2017
Natural gas may be much cleaner than coal, but it has some surprisingly filthy qualities.
This 'smart plant' factor could lead to stronger crops
This 'smart plant' factor could lead to stronger crops
April 20, 2017
Plants may be smarter than we give them credit for. They do not have brains, and therefore do not think in the same way that humans and other animals do, but they have intricate systems in place that compute the best response to the challenges of daily life.
The protein that could help fight asthma
The protein that could help fight asthma
April 20, 2017
Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine may have found the first new direction for treating asthma in years. They isolated a protein that when missing from the airway causes the swelling, constriction and mucus emblematic of asthma.
How much of the Earth is Protected?
Scientists like biologist E.O. Wilson are calling for half of the Earth’s surface and seas to be set aside as protected landscape to preserve humanity. With this goal in mind, one might wonder exactly how much is already protected.
To answer this, it’s important to know how much of the Earth has been touched by humans.
Why the 'cockeyed squid' is cockeyed
Why the 'cockeyed squid' is cockeyed
April 10, 2017
Behind every strange-looking feature on a strange-looking animal, there is a story of evolution and a need for that attribute.