WEIRD SCIENCE
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 …
Ordinary food coloring suspended in tiny droplets in the air can generate oxygen free radicals that collide with airborne virus particles. wwing/iStock/Getty Images Plus – 2020 Aug 20 Authors Young Kim Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Hee-Jae Jeon Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical …
Alexander von Humboldt – self-portrait. – By Richard Gunderman, Chancellor’s Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University – Alexander von Humboldt sought to see and understand everything. By the time he drew his self-portrait at age 45, Humboldt had tutored himself …
Pipes absorb a litany of chemicals from fires and firefighting, which leach into the water. Jiroe via Unsplash – A version of this story originally appeared on The Conversation – Authors: Andrew J. Whelton Environmental Engineering, Purdue University Caitlin R. Proctor …
The Sun may once have had a twin that was later lost. M. Weiss – By Michael Irving 2020 Aug 19 – While the Sun is very clearly a solo act nowadays, some astronomers theorize that it once had a binary companion star. Now, …
The inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure). Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC BY – By Richard Gunderman, Chancellor’s Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University Updated 2020 Aug 14 – Match the following figures …
