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Science & Environment

Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air

Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working in his Paris laboratory. It was there that he had some of his greatest...

Joseph Brown - February 17, 2025

Science & Environment

New Insights Into Older Hearts

It turns out that the Isley Brothers, who sang that 1966 Motown hit “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You),” were...

Joseph Brown - February 15, 2025

Science & Environment

Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where...

Joseph Brown - February 12, 2025

Science & Environment

‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea

Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space at a speed...

Joseph Brown - February 12, 2025

Science & Environment

Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

With TV cameras pointed at her, Felisa Wolfe-Simon began speaking at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2010.“I’ve discovered — I’ve...

Joseph Brown - February 10, 2025

Science & Environment

A Swearing Expert Discusses the State of Profanity

Cursing is coursing through society. Words once too blue to publicly utter have become increasingly commonplace. “Language is just part of the whole...

Joseph Brown - February 9, 2025

Education

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a...

Joseph Brown - February 9, 2025

Science & Environment