Immunologists hack body rhythms for medicine
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Fighting Climate Change One Meal at a Time
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Is Aging a Disease?
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
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When Robots Multiply
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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup
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From Chemist to Food-Tech CEO
ChemMatters Magazine
Surprising Limits Discovered in Quest for Optimal Solutions
Quanta Magazine
The Artificial Leaf: Copying Nature to Fight Climate Change
ChemMatters Magazine
How to Make Fashion Sustainable
CHEMMATTERS MAGAZINE
Channeling a Passion for Chemistry to Help Others
ACS ChemMatters
The Coach Who Led the U.S. Math Team Back to the Top
QUANTA MAGAZINE
To Mars and Back Again
ACS CHEMMATTERS MAGAZINE
New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations
QUANTA MAGAZINE
The Chemistry of Convenience—PFAS Forever Chemicals
CHEMMATTERS MAGAZINE
Extreme Adventures and Saving the Planet | Q&A With a Sustainable Chemist
ACS CHEMMATTERS MAGAZINE
What Human Hair Reveals About Death’s Seasonality
SAPIENS (Republished in The Atlantic)
A Slime Mold Can Change Its Mind
SCIENCE FRIDAY / MASSIVE SCIENCE
Wacky tube men could keep dingoes away from livestock in Australia
SCIENCE MAGAZINE
Are Forever Chemicals Harming Ocean Life?
THE REVELATOR
Scientists Discover Exposed Bacteria Can Survive in Space for Years
SMITHSONIAN An experiment conducted outside the International Space Station leads to a controversial theory about how life might travel between planets Framed by an infinite backdrop of dark, lifeless space, a robotic arm on the International Space Station in 2015 mounted a box of exposed microbes on a handrail 250 miles above Earth. The hearty…
To Make Oxygen on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Needs MOXIE
SMITHSONIAN A new tool from the space agency may produce the gas, completing the next step for planning a round trip voyage Putting boots on Mars isn’t easy, but it’s a lot easier than bringing them back. This week, NASA launches its Perseverance rover on a one-way trip to the surface of Mars. Among many…
Were Women The True Artisans Behind Ancient Greek Ceramics
SAPIENS A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece going back some 3,000 years—and that this failing could speak to a more consequential blind spot involving gender. Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse…
Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn To Love
SMITHSONIAN As Brood IX takes flight for the first time in 17 years, cicada lovers have their ears open. Around this time of year, Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a curtain. The entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign…
Decoding the chemistry behind cicada’s bacteria-killing wings
CHEMISTRY WORLD Meticulously organised fatty acids are responsible for the bacteria-killing, superhydrophobic nanostructures on cicada wings. The team behind the discovery hopes that its work will inspire antimicrobial surfaces that mimic cicada wings for use in settings such as hospitals. When in contact with dust, pollen and – importantly – water, the cicadas’ superhydrophobic wings…
Bioethics experts call on GoFundMe to ban unproven medical treatments
THE VERGE The authors worry about the spread of medical misinformation A bioethics study published on December 8th calls on crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to ditch campaigns for unproven and unsafe medical procedures. People turn to GoFundMe for help paying for all sorts of medical interventions. These campaigns have brought in over $650 million since 2010.…