Category Archives: STEM News

In California’s Central Valley, a gas utility is harvesting methane from manure on cow feedlots. Critics worry the push toward biogas will only further entrench two polluting industries. Continue reading →

A growing body of science is demonstrating that spending time in nature — or even an urban park or garden — is good for us. But the grass isn’t green for everyone. Continue reading →

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Pandemic highlights for the week

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There’s no conclusive evidence that pre-workout products work, and some ingredients (labeled or not) can put your health at risk. In the past, products have been banned only after killing consumers. Continue reading →

Try out these hands-on citizen science projects. You don’t even have to leave the house. Continue reading →

How destinations like The Wave, located near the Arizona-Utah border, are managing overtourism. Continue reading →

Animal protein isn’t the only way to get in this key macronutrient. Plants have protein, too — and there are good reasons to load up on this source. Continue reading →

Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work

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The beginning of April always generates a slew of research papers from scientists who should know better. Here is this year’s round up. Continue reading →

Albert Einstein’s simple yet powerful equation revolutionized physics by connecting the mass of an object with its energy for the first time. Continue reading →

An ancient impactor called Theia hit the Earth to create the moon. New research suggests the rest of that planet may still be inside the Earth. Continue reading →

The old adage of “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” applies here. Continue reading →

The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon’s magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab. But what does it…

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Blue Origin’s spacecraft could ferry nearly 10,000 pounds of cargo and crew to the Moon’s surface — if NASA gives it the green light. Continue reading →

Cryonicists hope that modern technology will one day bring them back from the dead. But how realistic is a second life after a deep freeze? Continue reading →

A new wave of research seeks neurological signatures for a type of amnesia

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Confused by the dizzying array of studies that seem contradictory at times? You’ve come to the right place. Here’s what to know about coffee’s — mostly beneficial — health impacts. Continue reading →

The story of how the first vertebrates came to walk on land hundreds of millions of years ago and filled the Earth with its many descendants. Continue reading →

Can plant power help you cross the finish line? Continue reading →

We don’t know, but we could try to find out by searching for it on planets orbiting the very oldest stars

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Pulmonary fibrosis is diagnosed in about 50,000 new patients annually, and as many as 40,000 Americans die from it each year

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Cancer may never have a singular cure — but that doesn’t mean experts aren’t optimistic about what’s in store for future patients. Continue reading →

Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain…

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Planting new corals can’t stop climate change, but it can give marine ecosystems a fighting chance. Volunteers have largely led the ambitious effort. Continue reading →

Several new strains of the coronavirus have been identified — and they’re more contagious. Here’s what’s known about how they spread, how well the vaccines work against them, and the symptoms these variants cause. Continue reading →

A starry sense of wonder can pry apart the fears and doubts that turn so many people away from science. Continue reading →

It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccines actively prevent disease

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MiMi Aung, project manager for the Mars Helicopter, offers a peek into the high-frontier culture at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Continue reading →

With the right rules, neural networks can learn to grow more or less anything, say computer scientists. Continue reading →