Community Outreach By: Debby Teich | November 27, 2023 | 5 min. read |  Share Sylvester’s second annual “Art is Medicine” installation opens Dec. 1 and will feature a new collection that highlights clinical research from Sophia George, Ph.D., on disparities in cancer among those with African ancestry. This year’s Art Basel fair will bring hundreds…

/ Popular Science magazine shifted to an all-digital format a couple of years ago, and now even that’s gone. p>span:first-child]:text-gray-13 [&_.duet–article-byline-and]:text-gray-13″> By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. After 151 years, Popular Science will…

The Orion molecular cloud complex lies on the horizon behind the Kottamia Observatory outside of Cairo. Credit: Osama Fathi From our earliest ancestors on the plains of Africa to astrology and finally to modern science, humans have always looked up to the sky. It’s easy to imagine that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, our earliest hominin ancestors thought…

This map depicts global temperature anomalies for meteorological summer in 2023 (June, July, and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980. Credit: NASA’s Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin The effects of climate change are increasingly tangible. Reforms at the Intergovernmental Panel on…

Credit: Credit: Getty Images / James Reynolds The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite us Full Transcript Andrea Thompson: Humans have been adapting to our environment as long as we’ve been around—it’s how we’ve settled everywhere from the bitter cold Arctic to the scorching desert…

“Viruses have a natural ability to enter cells and deliver cargo,” Leonard said. “Borrowing viral parts is an effective strategy for achieving delivery, but then you are somewhat limited to the types of delivery that the virus evolved to do. It takes substantial engineering work to tweak those systems to alter their functions for each…

The Hill published this warning from an Information Sciences assistant professor: Since 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted. They either contained errors, were based on outdated knowledge or were outright frauds… Yet these zombie publications continue to be cited and used, unwittingly, to support new arguments. Why? Almost always it’s because nobody…

An Australian mosquito species knows the best spot to drink its bloody meals: a frog’s nostril. The bloodsuckers are surprisingly selective when dining on frogs, seemingly picking no other place on the body to feast, researchers report November 21 in Ethology. Frogs’ sniffers may be an easy and productive place for the mosquitoes to pierce…

SLATINGTON, Pa. — As temperatures begin to drop across the Lehigh Valley and winter moves into the region, environmental officials are ready to draw residents out. “When winter’s here, people want stuff to do – they want to get out of the house,” said Riley Davenport, education and outreach coordinator for Lehigh Gap Nature Center.…

An Australian mosquito species knows the best spot to drink its bloody meals: a frog’s nostril. The bloodsuckers are surprisingly selective when dining on frogs, seemingly picking no other place on the body to feast, researchers report November 21 in Ethology. Frogs’ sniffers may be an easy and productive place for the mosquitoes to pierce…