Is the ancient Greek myth real?
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Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize
A Chinese-American physicist whose name many people have never heard will soon share a rare honor typically bestowed on the field’s mononymous greats: Einstein, Fermi, Feynman. On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will issue a stamp commemorating Chien-Shiung Wu, […]
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U.S. scientists want Congress to look into complaints of racial profiling in China Initiative
Scientists and civil rights organizations are ramping up pressure on Congress and President Joe Biden’s administration to examine whether the U.S. government has been unfairly targeting Chinese-American researchers in an effort to protect government-funded research from foreign influences.
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Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize
A Chinese-American physicist whose name many people have never heard will soon share a rare honor typically bestowed on the field’s mononymous greats: Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman. On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will issue a stamp […]
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Diamonds need an electric zap to crystallize deep inside Earth
Without voltage, diamonds don’t form.
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Lizards may be protecting people from Lyme disease in the southeastern United States
Lyme disease is one of the most devastating tick-borne infections in the United States, affecting more than 300,000 people each year. It’s also one of the most mysterious: The creature that spreads it—the black-legged tick—lives throughout the country. Yet the northeastern United States is home to far more cases than anywhere […]
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Scientists narrow down the ‘weight’ of dark matter trillions of trillions of times
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In a warming world, it’s better to be a small mammal than a bird
In the early 1900s, Joseph Grinnell traversed the wilds of California in his Ford Model T truck, meticulously surveying its fauna. Along the Californian coast, he trapped pocket mice and watched condors soar; in the Mojave Desert, his team chronicled American kestrels swooping for insects and caught cactus mice hiding […]