The Language Of Lincoln
The power of President Lincoln's most famous speech resides in its simplicity.
Dispatches
Seize The Decay
A new sensor with the ability to measure the metabolic degradation of food will change the way you look at your refrigerator shelves.
Alone Again, Or
Scientists have been studying the calls of a whale dubbed “the loneliest whale in the world” for more than 20 years. Its calls are unusually high pitched—52 hertz, versus the typical 15-20 hertz range of blue whales. No one has ever seen the 52-hertz whale, but scientists believe he…
Mind The Gap
Translation, or the attempt to make another language part of our own, is as complicated as what can never be translated.
Science Shaming
Combatting public myths surrounding science is good, but not to the point that scientists and non-scientists are speaking past each other.
The Power Of Energy
Knowing the difference between energy's ability to work, and the rate at which it's created and consumed, is crucial to balancing consumers' power needs.
Science’s Three-Way Split
A recent AAAS survey showed a troubling split between not just scientists and the public, but also scientists themselves.
Science vs. The People
Washington University in St. Louis’ Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Barbara Schaal, was recently announced as the President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), beginning her term Feb. 17. The AAAS’ mission is to “advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the…
The Antibiotic Re-Think
If we expect to remain dependent on antibiotics for treating life-threatening infections, then we must completely re-think livestock antibiotic use.
See Journeys
The awe-inspiring mantis shrimp. Photo by: Flickr/Silke Baron There is a long-standing puzzle about the wiring of the human eye: why was it wired backwards? The inside-out vertebrate retina has always been presented as an example of inefficient structure locked in by development and evolutionary history. Some recent research has…