WEIRD SCIENCE
A horror movie proved an unlikely source of inspiration. Pelling in the kitchen with asparagus, the veggie that inspired his work on spinal cord injuries. Andrew Pelling – By Cari Shane 2021 Aug 04 – His lab is filled with apples, asparagus, broccoli, …
Archaeologist and paleoenvironmental researcher Isaac Hart of the University of Utah surveys a melting ice patch in western Mongolia. Peter Bittner, CC BY-ND – William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder 2021 Aug 11 – In the world’s …
Exclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet – Animal farming is one of the activities producing methane, which has a warming potential more that 80 times that of CO2. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters …
Gravity feels like it’s pulling everything toward Earth, but why? AdventurePhoto/E+ via WikimediaCommons – By Mario Borunda, Associate Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University 2021 Jul 26 – Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question …
Venus, often referred to as “Earth’s twin”, is set to receive two visitors next week. NASA/JPL-Caltech View 7 Images – By David Szondy 2021 Aug 03 – Next week, two deep-space probes will make flybys of Venus within 30 hours of each other on …
The Cedar Creek Fire burns in Washington’s Methow Valley in late July 2021. Jessica Kelley – Susan J. Prichard, Research Scientist of Forest Ecology, University of Washington Keala Hagmann, Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington Paul Hessburg, Research Ecologist, United States Forest Service …
What are you looking at? Greg Shine, BLM/Flickr, CC BY – Authors Jeremy Dertien, PhD Candidate in Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University Courtney Larson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming Sarah Reed, Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State …
The Little Ice Age brought some bitter extremes. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 – By Dagomar Degroot, Associate Professor of Environmental History, Georgetown University 2021 Jul 27 – In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway …
As Pfizer and BioNTech make a push for third booster vaccine shots, some researchers are questioning whether boosters are needed right now. Ezumeimages/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2021 Jul 13 – When will COVID-19 vaccine booster shots be necessary? Pfizer has recently claimed a …
Stop throwing your food away. A scene like this greets most supermarket shoppers in the US. But much of what we think we know about food shopping needs an overhaul. Steve Pfost/Newsday/Getty Images – By Alissa Wilkinson@alissamariealissa@vox.com 2021 Jul 08 – Maybe you …
