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10/16/2024

The speed at which our brain can tell smells apart is on par with color perception, a new sniff device shows.

10/03/2024

‘There is way more going on in thunderstorms than we ever imagined.’

06/23/2024

While most heat waves settle in after most schools have let out for summer, districts across the country will face challenges as climate change brings hotter days earlier in the summer and later into the fall, including in regions that haven’t traditionally dealt with extreme heat.

Extreme heat is becoming more common across the United States. Schools need to start preparing now.

06/23/2024

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said there is enough evidence mounting that shows a connection between social media and adolescents’ deteriorating mental health that a surgeon general’s warning label—similar to what appears on cigarette packages—is warranted.

A surgeon general's warning label would alert users that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms in adolescents.”

05/16/2024

While most think that it’s an important subject to learn, they’re often uninterested in the work that they’re given in classes, which they see as disconnected from math’s real-world applications.

A new survey of nearly 90,000 high school students demonstrates American teenagers’ deep ambivalence about how math is taught in schools.

09/21/2023

These 25 public high schools rank the best for science, technology, engineering and math.

09/20/2023

The job of a scientist is to listen carefully to nature, not to tell nature how to behave. - Prof. Richard Feynman

09/07/2023

Science curricula in the United States and around the globe are largely devoid of any substantial climate science, or even any kind of Earth and space science.

Integrating Earth and space science into high school biology, chemistry, and physics courses may be the best way to educate the public about climate science.

09/06/2023

Dubbed an “engineered living material,” it is a 3D-printed structure made of a seaweed-based polymer combined with bacteria that have been genetically engineered to produce an enzyme that transforms various organic pollutants into benign molecules.

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08/30/2023

Many machines, including cellphones, data centers, cars and airplanes, become less efficient and degrade more quickly in extreme heat.

People aren’t the only ones harmed by heat waves. The hotter it gets, the harder it is for machines to keep their cool.

08/23/2023

The plaintiffs claimed that state laws promoting fossil fuel extraction and forbidding the consideration of climate impacts during environmental review violate their constitutional environmental right.

The case hinged on Montana’s ‘green amendment,’ which guarantees a constitutional right to ‘a clean and healthful environment.’ Other states have similar amendments, and more are considering them.