Prepping continues as finalist team members work with mentors to develop their project presentation skills for the May 1 Nanovation Competition judging.
National Get Up Day is celebrated February 1 in the US "is an opportunity to share inspiring stories of perseverance; it’s a reminder to pick ourselves up when we’ve fallen and give it (whatever it may be) another go!"Science and academia have...
Climate change is no hoax and no joke. Work wrapped up yesterday in Marrakech, Morocco, where nearly 200 nations participated in the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP22) meeting to agree on methods to implement the 2015 Paris agreement to limit...
Great day as ERAscience, CNSI UCLA (California NanoSystems Institute) and Univision, collaborate to bring fun, hands on science experience to 30,000 kids and their parents at Univision's 2016 Feria de Educacion held at Cal State Northridge University Satuday...
First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Evan Howell traveled to Cape Blossom, Alaska, where the receding coastline has revealed an ancient trove of glacial ice that may have survived for 350,000 years—making it the oldest ice in the Northern Hemisphere. Now researchers just need to figure out how to date it. Next on the […]
First up on the podcast, a peek into the roiling seas of U.S. science policy. ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser talks about shifting leadership at the National Science Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as a dip in funding rates by the National Institutes of Health. Staff Writer Robert F. Service […]
First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell talks to Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about his visit to Brazil, where he observed firsthand what it takes for researchers to understand why bird populations in the Amazon and beyond are shrinking. Next on the show, Raouf Belkhir, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh School […]
Archbald, Pennsylvania, a borough of fewer than 8,000 people, may soon be home to five massive data centers that, when completed, would rank among the largest now in the world. While residents are worried that data centers will strain the electric grid and drive up power bills, officials are clearing the way for these projects, […]
Since President Trump launched the latest bombing campaign against Iran, the price of a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. has climbed by 20 percent. The spike in fuel costs has reportedly driven a surge in interest in electric cars.Read more on E360 →
In parts of Europe, the diversity of plants was greatest in the years before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands and forests, new research reveals. The findings show how, under the right conditions, farms can be a boon to nature.Read more on E360 →