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    Category: Science & Society

    Here are 7 new science museums and exhibitions to visit in 2023

    If you’re a museum aficionado itching for a new place to explore, 2023 has you covered. New science museums and exhibitions are opening, and some…

    31/01/2023
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    Recycling rare earth elements is hard. Science is trying to make it easier

    Our modern lives depend on rare earth elements, and someday soon we may not have enough to meet growing demand. Because of their special properties,…

    20/01/2023

    Rare earth elements could be pulled from coal waste

    In Appalachia’s coal country, researchers envision turning toxic waste into treasure. The pollution left behind by abandoned mines is an untapped source of rare earth…

    20/01/2023

    How rare earth elements’ hidden properties make modern technology possible

    In Frank Herbert’s space opera Dune, a precious natural substance called spice melange grants people the ability to navigate vast expanses of the cosmos to…

    16/01/2023

    Sea life offers a lens for self-exploration in ‘How Far the Light Reaches’

    How Far the Light ReachesSabrina ImblerLittle, Brown & Co., $27 In How Far the Light Reaches, Sabrina Imbler shows us that the ocean, in all…

    13/01/2023

    Pandemic languishing is a thing. But is it a privilege?

    Languishing. The term captured the zeitgeist in April 2021 when organizational psychologist Adam Grant penned an article in the New York Times titled, “There’s a…

    10/01/2023

    Meet the first Black American to earn an evolutionary biology Ph.D.

    A Voice in the WildernessJoseph L. Graves Jr.Basic Books, $30 It’s both good and bad that the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in…

    04/01/2023

    Medical racism didn’t begin or end with the syphilis study at Tuskegee

    “We were all hard-working men … and citizens of the United States.” Herman Shaw, 1997 Born in Alabama in 1902, Herman Shaw was a farmer…

    23/12/2022

    Why pandemic fatigue and COVID-19 burnout took over in 2022

    2022 was the year many people decided the coronavirus pandemic had ended. President Joe Biden said as much in an interview with 60 Minutes in…

    10/12/2022

    A new book asks: What makes humans call some animals pests?

    PestsBethany BrookshireEcco, $28.99 We spend so much time making sure wildlife stays away from us, whether that’s setting traps, building fences or putting out poisons.…

    05/12/2022

    Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease

    Great scientists become immortalized in various ways. Some through names for obscure units of measurement (à la Hertz, Faraday and Curie). Others in elements on…

    18/11/2022

    Why fuzzy definitions are a problem in the social sciences

    U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences…

    Zeelamo 16/11/2022

    ‘Fresh Banana Leaves’ shows how Western conservation has harmed Indigenous people

    Fresh Banana LeavesJessica HernandezNorth Atlantic Books, $17.95 During the civil war in El Salvador that began in the 1970s, an injured Victor Hernandez hid from…

    Zeelamo 02/03/2022

    Nudge theory’s popularity may block insights into improving society

    Imagine removing a branch of the U.S. government, say the Supreme Court. What are the myriad ways that such an upheaval might reshape people’s lives?…

    Zeelamo 22/02/2022

    Military towns are the most racially integrated places in the U.S. Here’s why

    Military towns are the most racially integrated places in the U.S. Here’s why
    Zeelamo 08/02/2022

    How we got from Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to modern genetics

    How we got from Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to modern genetics
    Zeelamo 08/02/2022

    Stuck inside this winter? Try an at-home citizen science project

    For many of us, it’s the height of winter, with harsh weather and the pandemic keeping us inside. If you’re looking for a new way…

    Zeelamo 25/01/2022

    Part donkey, part wild ass, the kunga is the oldest known hybrid bred by humans

    From mules to ligers, the list of human-made hybrid animals is long. And, it turns out, ancient. Meet the kunga, the earliest known hybrid animal…

    Zeelamo 18/01/2022

    Why do some people succeed when others fail? Outliers provide clues

    Northern Somalia’s economy relies heavily on livestock. About 80 percent of the country’s annual exports are meat, milk and wool from sheep and other animals.…

    Zeelamo 13/01/2022

    How some of 2021’s major science stories evolved over time

    A story doesn’t necessarily end once it goes online. Here, Science News offers status updates on some evolving stories we reported on earlier this year.…

    Zeelamo 22/12/2021

    6 surprising records science set in 2021

    From a record-setting black hole to the oldest animal DNA ever recovered, discoveries in 2021 stretched the limits of scientific study — and our imaginations.…

    Zeelamo 20/12/2021

    These are the viruses that mRNA vaccines may take on next

    Tiny molecules came up big in 2021. By year’s end, COVID-19 vaccines based on snippets of mRNA, or messenger RNA, proved to be safe and…

    Zeelamo 17/12/2021

    Why it matters that health agencies finally said the coronavirus is airborne

    This year, health experts around the world revised their views about how the coronavirus spreads. Aerosol scientists, virologists and other researchers had determined in 2020…

    Zeelamo 16/12/2021

    In 2021, COVID-19 vaccines were put to the test. Here’s what we learned

    2021 was the year the COVID-19 vaccines had to prove their mettle. We started the year full of hope: With vaccines in hand in record-breaking…

    Zeelamo 15/12/2021

    These are Science News’ favorite books of 2021

    Many of the Science News staff’s favorite books of the year challenge how we understand the world, from rethinking human history to reimagining the toilet.…

    Zeelamo 08/12/2021

    A massive 8-year effort finds that much cancer research can’t be replicated

    After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like…

    Zeelamo 07/12/2021

    Climate change could make Virginia’s Tangier Island uninhabitable by 2051

    Virginia’s Tangier Island is rapidly disappearing. Rising sea levels are exacerbating erosion and flooding, and could make the speck of land in the Chesapeake Bay…

    Zeelamo 06/12/2021

    How missing data makes it harder to measure racial bias in policing

    From 2012 to 2015, a team of researchers collected 2.9 million police officer patrol records in Chicago. The team’s analysis of that data, from nearly…

    Zeelamo 17/11/2021

    No, COVID-19 vaccines won’t make you infertile

    The World Health Organization has warned that the globe is dealing with two pandemics. One is the spread of the coronavirus, but the other, equally…

    Zeelamo 11/11/2021

    ‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history

    The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber and David WengrowFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 Concerns abound about what’s gone wrong in modern societies. Many scholars explain growing…

    Zeelamo 09/11/2021

    How to choose a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot

    It’s been a little over six months since I got my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, and…

    Zeelamo 08/11/2021

    Scientists should report results with intellectual humility. Here’s how

    In the children’s chapter book series Zoey and Sassafras, which my own two kids adore, young Zoey has to work out how to save magical…

    Zeelamo 28/10/2021

    Epidemics have happened before and they’ll happen again. What will we remember?

    The emergency hospital, a partially demolished building hastily enclosed with wooden partitions, was about to open. It was the fall of 1918 in Philadelphia, and…

    Zeelamo 27/10/2021

    Nostalgia may have bona fide benefits in hard times, like the pandemic

    Over 300 years ago, Swiss physician Johannes Hofer observed disturbing behaviors among Swiss mercenaries fighting in far-flung lands. The soldiers were prone to anorexia, despondency…

    Zeelamo 12/10/2021

    Methods of getting results from real-world experiments win 2021 economics Nobel

    Some of the most insightful — and now most celebrated — studies of such major social issues as minimum wages and immigration have seized on…

    Zeelamo 11/10/2021

    How our SN 10 scientists have responded to tumultuous times

    Each year since 2015, Science News has featured the work of outstanding early- and mid-career scientists in our SN 10: Scientists to Watch list. They’re…

    Zeelamo 07/10/2021

    The spoken word album ‘Experimental Words’ weaves rhyme with reason

    B. Gregory “Science asks the questions. / And poetry marks the spot.”  This line from “Unweaving Science,” the opening track of the spoken word album…

    Zeelamo 01/10/2021

    The Top 10 scientific surprises of Science News’ first 100 years

    From the day Archimedes cut his bath short to shout “Eureka,” science has been a constant source of surprises. Even after the abundant accumulation of…

    Zeelamo 20/09/2021

    Mary Roach’s new book ‘Fuzz’ explores the ‘criminal’ lives of animals

    Fuzz Mary RoachW.W. Norton & Co., $26.95 Around the world, criminals run free in the forest. These villains can’t be arrested — because they’re not…

    Zeelamo 14/09/2021

    Perspective-changing experiences, good or bad, can lead to richer lives

    In December, my husband, our 5-year-old daughter and I tested positive for COVID-19. Life, already off-kilter, lurched. Smell, taste, breath — were they normal? The…

    Zeelamo 01/09/2021

    ‘On the Fringe’ explores the thin line between science and pseudoscience

    On the FringeMichael D. GordinOxford Univ., $18.95 There is no such thing as pseudoscience, and Michael Gordin has written a book about it. In On…

    Zeelamo 30/08/2021

    Gender-affirming care improves mental health for transgender youth

    Daniel’s birth certificate is marked “female,” but Daniel is nonbinary — not exclusively male nor female. “I’m masculine leaning,” says the 18-year-old. The disconnect between…

    Zeelamo 29/08/2021

    Racism lurks in names given to plants and animals. That’s starting to change

    With lemon and black plumage, the Scott’s oriole flashes in the desert like a flame. But the bird’s name holds a violent history that Stephen…

    Zeelamo 25/08/2021

    Everyone maps numbers in space. But why don’t we all use the same directions?

    Consider a ruler, a timeline or even weights lined up in a gym. Why are the smaller values, the earlier times and the lighter weights…

    Zeelamo 23/08/2021

    ‘Wild Souls’ explores what we owe animals in a human-dominated world

    Wild SoulsEmma MarrisBloomsbury, $28 On the Arctic Ocean’s fringe, polar bears stand on ice thinning from human-caused climate change. Without thick ice from which to…

    Zeelamo 03/08/2021

    How to detect, resist and counter the flood of fake news

    From lies about election fraud to QAnon conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine falsehoods, misinformation is racing through our democracy. And it is dangerous. Awash in bad…

    Zeelamo 22/07/2021

    Gray wolves scare deer from roads, reducing dangerous collisions

    Gray wolves help keep North America’s deer populations in check, and by doing so, may provide an added benefit for people: curbing deer-vehicle collisions. In…

    Zeelamo 22/07/2021

    Climate change disinformation is evolving. So are efforts to fight back

    Over the last four decades, a highly organized, well-funded campaign powered by the fossil fuel industry has sought to discredit the science that links global…

    Zeelamo 22/07/2021

    Small bribes may help people build healthy handwashing habits

    Good habits are hard to adopt. But a little bribery can go a long way. That’s the finding from an experiment in India that used…

    Zeelamo 22/07/2021

    Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new. Here’s the damage it’s done over centuries

    As vaccines to protect people from COVID-19 started becoming available in late 2020, the rhetoric of anti-vaccine groups intensified. Efforts to keep vaccines out of…

    Zeelamo 22/07/2021
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