Teaching university students to be ‘age-conscious’ could help address our elder care crisis
What it’s like to get older? A course on the psychology of aging helped students gain empathy and curiosity. Credit:...
Cortez Deacetis
Are your kids keeping up at school?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain How a child learns is as individual as the child themselves. Yet with the pressures of...
Scientists Plan Private Mission to Hunt for Earths around Alpha Centauri
Do any habitable worlds exist in the closest stellar system to our own, Alpha Centauri? For years scientists have struggled...
Great Apes’ Biggest Threat Is Human Activity, Not Habitat Loss
When ecologist Hjalmar Kühl first visited the Republic of Congo in 2003, deep in the forest, he met chimpanzees whose...
Mystery of Doomed Sardine Migration Is Finally Solved
As winter arrives in South Africa, anticipation begins to build for one of the planet’s largest and most spectacular migrations:...
NASA’s DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse
Back when Andy Rivkin was in college, he had a few friends in medical school. “I was like, oh man,...
Lost Women of Science, Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Portrait
From the COVID vaccine to pulsars to computer programming, women are at the source of many scientific discoveries, inventions and...
COVID Can Cause Strange Eye and Ear Symptoms
Red eyes, ringing ears, sensitivity to light, trouble hearing: although a loss of taste and smell have become well-known sensory...
An Experiment Using Human Stem Cells Ended Up Reversing Diabetes in Mice
A technique capable of converting human stem cells into insulin-producing cells could hold huge promise for future diabetic treatments, if...
Scientists Discover Unknown Plant Species Growing on Australia’s Sacred Uluru
Scientists have made what is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, finding a new plant species on the giant rock...
Experimental mRNA Vaccine Not Yet Tested in Humans Protects Against Lyme Disease
A new laboratory-stage mRNA vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognize the saliva from tick bites could prevent these...
