Rural Texas Scrambles to Respond to Measles
With crumbling public health infrastructure, county health departments in Texas face steep challenges. Aging infrastructure, a dearth of primary care providers, and long distances between testing sites...
View ArticleRural Texas Scrambles to Respond to Measles
With crumbling public health infrastructure, county health departments in Texas face steep challenges. Aging infrastructure, a dearth of primary care providers, and long distances between testing sites...
View ArticleHow One Company Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable
For years, scientists have explored ways to cool the planet through geoengineering. Now a little-known, well-financed startup, Stardust, is aiming to develop a proprietary geoengineering technology,...
View ArticleAmid Gutting of USAID, Agent Orange Cleanup in Vietnam Halted
When foreign aid was halted in February, diplomats in Vietnam warned that defunding the clean up of a massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health. Now, companies in...
View ArticleA Powerhouse of Global Satellite Infrastructure: Norway?
Norway may not be the first country that comes to mind when thinking of the space industry. But it has quietly emerged as a ground-station powerhouse, supporting some of the world’s most important...
View ArticleOur Toxic Relationship with Herbicides
Herbicides pose risks to the environment and to human health, but they are also the best tool land managers have for controlling invasive plants, which themselves can cause harm to ecosystems. One...
View ArticleBook Review: Casting a Brighter Light on Nuclear Energy
In “The Power of Nuclear,” Dutch journalist Marco Visscher lays out the reasons why widespread fears and hesitations about atomic energy are misguided, illogical, and propelled by unscientific...
View ArticleLawsuits Against Diversity Initiatives in Science Multiply
Recent lawsuits against the American Chemical Society and the University of Pennsylvania join a recent uptick in legal action against programs intended to promote diversity in academia. Many legal...
View ArticleColorado’s Experiment With Psychedelic Mushrooms Begins
Though the fungi await FDA approval, state regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms in mental health treatment and are planning to authorize “healing centers.” These are some...
View ArticleIn Genetics, a Tense Coexistence of Mainstream and Fringe Views
Researchers are, by and large, dubious of efforts to demonstrate a genetic basis for racial or ancestral-group differences in intelligence. The current tools, they say, simply aren’t equipped to...
View ArticleCommunities Must Take the Lead in Preventing Opioid Overdoses
A recent drop in the number of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. has puzzled researchers. But results from a recent study on drug addiction suggest how to keep that downward trend going: by engaging...
View ArticleBook Review: The Dazzling Complexity of the Frozen World
In “Ends of the Earth,” popular science writer and paleontologist Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar research, as well as the extraordinary biological adaptations of...
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