Maybe this year’s Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels. An anthropologist who tested an urban legend by fashioning a knife out of frozen […]
With the deadly coronavirus pandemic raging into its seventh month, communities across the country now find themselves unable to escape the rapidly worsening effects of global climate change. In the last two weeks, wildfires fueled […]
Scientific American has dipped a toe into political waters for the first time in its 175-year history and is endorsing Joe Biden for president. The science and research publication is publishing the endorsement in a […]
The editor in chief of Science magazine, one of the world’s leading academic journals, published a harsh denunciation of President Donald Trump on Friday, laying into him for lying to the American people and demoralizing […]
Deadly wildfires raging Friday in Oregon, Washington and California made two major West Coast cities — Portland, Oregon, and Seattle —the places with the worst air quality in the world. Portland had an air quality […]