For nearly a quarter century, the International Space Station (ISS) has continuously hosted astronauts and science experiments as an enduring and beloved bastion of humanity in low-Earth orbit. Yet despite its successes, the space station’s days are numbered. In the coming months, NASA will be evaluating commercial proposals for vehicles capable of “decommissioning” the ISS—that…

In the unequal distribution of birds and other species, ecologists are tracing the impact of bigoted urban policies adopted decades ago. At a meeting of urban wildlife researchers in Washington, D.C., in June, one diagram made it into so many PowerPoint presentations that its recurrence became a running joke. The subject, though, was serious: The…

BOYS RANCH, Texas (KFDA) – Boys Ranch High School science teacher Gary Gill created a nature science research center for his students. Lindsey Stiner is taking a look at how vital this center is for those students in tonight’s Eye on Education. Appealing to students’ various learning styles and immersing them in a variation of…

I can’t even guess how many times I’ve written about our ridiculously inadequate laws that govern dietary supplements and how much useless and/or harmful crap is sold to unsuspecting consumers. Although many people will reflexively blame the FDA for the stuff being sold, that is not a fair criticism. Largely due to some cagey language in the Dietary Supplement…

According to the European Green Deal, the EU aims to cut its pesticide use in half by 2030 (ref. 1). To reach this ambitious target, holistic pesticide policies have been proposed to avoid the unwanted side effects of single actions such as pesticide bans2,3. However, not only pesticide policies but also the entire toolkit of…

Abstract Periosteal or osteoperiosteal medial femoral condyle (MFC) flaps may be good options for atrophic nonunion. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of pedicled MFC flap in the treatment of recalcitrant femur nonunion without bone defect. Thirteen patients (11 male and 2 female), who suffered recalcitrant femur nonunion and…

Most scientific prizes and medals are named after men, and most of these are also awarded to men. The very few awards named after women or not named after a person at all are more frequently awarded to women, although parity between the gender of recipients is still not achieved. We call on the scientific…

The worm Caenorhabditis elegans has 302 neurons (green) that researchers can study using tools such as fluorescent markers.Credit: Heiti Paves/Science Photo Library The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end — is changing. Two studies…