Space is modern science’s largest laboratory, and the record of innovations and breakthroughs that have been made in space or through programs focused on space
Science, Technology and Society
Geel, Belgium: A History of Community Mental Healthcare
Brukelhoeve, Geel by ArcheoNet Vlaanderen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In 1977, Powers of Ten, which would become one of the most famous short films
Health and Medicine
The Next Pandemic: A Nation at Work (Part 2 of 3)
Editor’s Note: This article is the second of a three-part series on the components involved in the creation and prevention of infectious disease outbreaks. Check
Environment
Second-wave Effects: A Global Health Perspective on Climate Change
Monsoon season in Southwest Asia generally stretches from early June until late September. While the annual rainfalls are known to replenish freshwater and maintain the
Research
The Replication Crisis: Making Science True
The Royal Society of London is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. Founded in 1660, the Royal Society was one of the birthplaces
Colombian Jungle Cows to Syrian Social Media: Researching Leishmaniasis
Dusk has fallen in the jungle outside of Tumaco, Colombia. A team of researchers has traveled via jeeps and canoes to the western side of
Turning a Natural Phenomenon into a Gene Editing Powerhouse: CRISPR Pioneer, Doudna, at Stanford’s Johnson Symposium
The CRISPR cake Last week, I celebrated my eighteenth birthday. My dorm threw me in the shower, per Stanford tradition, and baked me a cake.
Alternative Science? The future of science research in Trump’s America
By: Lloyd Lyall Trump’s attitudes on medicine and the environment might be some of the most striking disavowals of science in the modern world. The
The Other Antibiotic: Viruses
Whether the name is spread by the 5 o’clock evening news, the National Institutes of Health website, or a box that you may have to
Miscellaneous
The World in Your Belly Button
In Dr. Seuss’s literary classic, “Horton Hears a Who,” an elephant discovers an entire society of tiny people living on a small flower. In the
Defying Gravity: DIY Physics Experiment
Staring at a list of physics equations can be daunting. These mathematical expressions, though, are meant to model the world that we see around us.
