WEIRD SCIENCE
The hotter it gets, the more urban emissions you get from hot asphalt, according to a new Yale study. Krivosheevv/Depositphotos – By Loz Blain 2020 Sep 04 – The more we work to get emissions down from motor vehicles and power generation, the more …
Fifty years ago, few scientists believed a drug could fight viruses with low side effects. Then Gertrude Elion showed the doubters “what I could do on my own.” Born in 1918 in Manhattan, Gertrude Elion developed the drug acyclovir, a potent inhibitor of …
Scientists have found a potential new weapon against breast cancer in the venom of honeybees. Nowhereman/Depositphotos – By Nick Lavars 2020 Sep 01 – The natural world is full of compounds that can do us harm, but medical scientists continue to show us how …
Dr Qian Wang and her fellow scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a “photosheet” capable of turning carbon dioxide into fuels using sunlight and water. University of Cambridge – By Nick Lavars 2020 Aug 24 – A device that effectively mimics the …
Two time crystals interacting will repeatedly pass particles back and forth. OlegTroino/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2020 Aug 17 – We’re quickly learning more about time crystals, strange phases of matter that appear to break time-translation symmetry – something that was thought impossible until …
There’s more going on than just melting glaciers and sea-level rise. Photo by Artem Beliaikin @belart84 on Unsplash – By Maddie Bender, Microbial Disease Epidemiology, Yale University 2019 Sep 25 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released their …
The health impact of wildfire exposure depends in part on the fire itself and how much smoke a person breathes in, how often and for how long. AP Photos/Noah Berger – Author Luke Montrose, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Health, Boise State …
A “quantum time travel simulator” suggests that the butterfly effect doesn’t apply to the quantum realm. MikhailLeonov/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2020 Jul 29 – Time travel movies have different rules about what happens when you start messing around with the timeline. If you’ve …
The oleander plant is beautiful but deadly because of a toxic chemical called oleadrin. Alvesgaspar/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA – By Cassandra Quave, Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Human Health; Herbarium Curator, Emory University 2020 Aug 18 – With COVID-19 cases and deaths rising …
Franklin’s lifelong quest was spreading scientific knowledge to regular people. Mason Chamberlin, CC BY – By Carla J. Mulford, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University – By the time he was 20 years old, colonial American Benjamin Franklin had already spent two years …
