Deepest X-Ray Image Ever is Chock-Full of Black Holes Matt Swayne Science & Medicine Astronomers are getting their best look yet at black holes by studying the deepest X-ray image ever obtained.
Black Americans May Be More Resilient to Stress Than White Americans Shervin Assari Science & Medicine White Americans live on average 3.6 years longer than black Americans. If you look only at men, the difference becomes 4.4 years. As I found in a recent study, the main reason behind this disparity is that...
Beauty Myths 2.0: Breaking Toxic Bonds and Creating Cross Racial Alliances UCLA Center for the Study of Women Science & Medicine, Society & Culture by Bhavna Shamasunder and Janette Robinson Flint This year at Nappy Wood, a hair expo for Black women, Black Women for Wellness hosted a table to talk with women about their hair stories and give women and...
Chemical Warriors, Part 1: An Origin Story UCLA Center for the Study of Women Science & Medicine by Jana Gowan Environmental justice and health movements raise awareness of the insidious nature of everyday chemical exposures and the alarming consequences for the health of our bodies and natural...
Black Carbon, Health, and the Power of Women’s Leadership UCLA Center for the Study of Women Gender Studies, Science & Medicine Black Carbon (BC), a product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, doesn't just contribute to climate change--it also contributes to chemical exposure. Commonly referred to as “soot”, BC emissions are...
Dreading Your Next Trip to the Dentist? Researchers discover genetic basis for dental fear West Virginia University Science & Medicine Psychology researchers at West Virginia University have discovered evidence of a genetic basis for fearing dental treatment. Cameron Randall and Daniel McNeil report that dental care-related fear and anxiety...
What Scientific Gobbledygook! Systems, Uncertainty and “Known Unknowns” Michele Battle-Fisher Science & Medicine, Society & Culture This is the inaugural article for my new open-science journal venture, Orgcomplexity. It was published as "Uncertainty, health and the teetering social contract." I am excited to be the Founding editor....
