Latest News
Science can now link climate change with some extreme weather events
Extreme weather events like floods, heat waves and droughts can devastate communities and populations worldwide. Recent scientific advances have enabled…
Editor's Top Picks
Many species now going extinct may vanish without a fossil trace
Scientists struggle to compare the magnitude of Earth’s ongoing sixth mass-extinction event with the five great die-offs of prehistory. A…
Your one-stop resource for medical news and education.
More form Latest News
Children with Disabilities Benefit from Classroom Inclusion
The secret to boosting the language skills of preschoolers with disabilities may be to put…
Removing school vending machines is not enough to cut soda consumption
Banning vending machines from schools can actually increase soda and fast food consumption among students…
Pistachios may lower vascular response to stress in Type 2 diabetes
In adults with diabetes, two servings of pistachios per day lowered vascular constriction during stress…
Watching Schrodinger’s cat die
Continuous monitoring of a qantum system can direct the quantum state along a random path.…
Dangers of desert dust: new diagnostic tool for valley fever
On July 5, 2011, a massive wall of dust, (“haboob,” in Arabic), blanketed Phoenix, Arizona,…