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/ 1 year ago1 in 4 Colorado 11th-graders skipped their state’s standardized test − geography and income help explain why
The opt-out movement caught on heavily in Colorado in the late 2010s. A group of education scholars is exploring the reasons...
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/ 1 year agoInsulin injections could one day be replaced with rock music − new research in mice
Researchers successfully treated diabetes in mice by engineering cells to make insulin in response to the music of Queen.
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/ 1 year agoHow PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are getting into Miami’s Biscayne Bay, where dolphins, fish and manatees dine
Scientists discovered PFAS hot spots in the bay and found PFAS in water along the Atlantic coast. In a new study,...
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/ 1 year agoBrains have a remarkable ability to rewire themselves following injury − a concussion specialist explains the science behind rehabilitation and recovery
Concussions can teach researchers a great deal about how the brain recovers after injury and offer insights into how people can...
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/ 1 year agoMass shootings often put a spotlight on mental illness, but figuring out which conditions should keep someone from having a gun is no easy task
Red flag laws are an important step in the right direction, but much more work is needed to determine the role...
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/ 1 year agoAmid ‘checkout charity’ boom, some Americans are more likely to be impulse givers than others
Middle-class consumers and shoppers of color give the most this way.
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/ 1 year agoDreams of a ‘broken up’ Russia might turn into a nightmare for the West – and an opportunity for China
Hawkish foreign policy wonks have called for a breakup of Russia. But would that fall into Beijing’s hands?
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/ 1 year agoMéxico elegirá pronto a su primera presidenta, pero este hito oculta una marcha desigual hacia los derechos de la mujer
Las mujeres representan la mitad del Congreso mexicano y ocupan puestos clave en la política y la judicatura. Sin embargo, el...
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/ 1 year agoThe battle over right to repair is a fight over your car’s data
Today’s cars include hundreds of computer chips, and carmakers say the data produced by those chips is proprietary – and a...
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/ 1 year agoIs time travel even possible? An astrophysicist explains the science behind the science fiction
Scientists are trying to figure out if time travel is even theoretically possible. If it is, it looks like it would...
