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 …
Archaeologists excavating at the famous Boxgrove site in England have identified horse bone tools, the earliest bone tools ever discovered in the history of European archaeology. There are scraping marks due to the way the tool was prepared, and pitting marks due to …
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 …
An experiment in Botswana suggests a non-lethal deterrent for predatory lions. Image source: Ben Yexly/UNSW – By Robby Berman 2020 Aug 12 – Lions help maintain balance in their ecosystems, but they also kill cattle. The big cats are ambush predators who depend …
National parks across the country preserve and share stories of trailblazing women who dared to imagine a different future. – The 19th Amendment – Tucked away behind the U.S. Capitol and across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court sits a historic building …
Driving for extra cash? Check your car insurance first. by Jim Kreidler Consumer Education Specialist, FTC With more people seeking delivery services during the Coronavirus pandemic, many companies are looking for drivers to shuttle meals, medicine, groceries, and other items to people at …
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 …
