A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Allen Institute and Open-Source Science Cailey Bromer Science, Science & Medicine By and large, academic science incentivizes researchers to "self-promote" in order to receive funding. In recent years, major journals like Science and Nature have written about how pressure on academic labs...
To Bee or Not to Bee: Social Dynamics, Productivity, and Stress Response in Honey Bees Niroshi Senaratne Science, Science & Medicine The social dynamics of a honey bee hive can influence a colony’s health.
Are Hospitals the Safest Place for Healthy Women to Have Babies? An Obstetrician Thinks Twice Neel Shah Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned...
Top Science Reads for Summer: On Immortality, Mortality, Germs and Justice Katherine Wu Science, Science & Medicine Our Microbiology and Immunology Correspondent Katherine Wu shares the reads that have meant the most to her.
Our Stone Tool Discovery Pushes Back the Archaeological Record by 700,000 Years Jason Lewis and Sonia Harmand History, Science, Society & Culture This post originally appeared on The Conversation. On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Sammy Lokorodi, who...
Kepler, Making the Impossible Possible, and Life Beyond Earth Alexander Thompson Science, Science & Medicine The Kepler team makes the seemingly impossible possible
When an Entrepreneur Becomes a Neuroscientist Cailey Bromer and Matt Gaidica Science, Science & Medicine Matt Gaidica, a second year graduate student at the University of Michigan, is listed in Pacific Standard’s “Top 30 Under 30.” Matt founded a software startup in Silicon Valley and wrote and...
