The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. On July 21, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden said he had tested positive…
CLIMATEWIRE | As extreme weather wracks much of the globe, large majorities of Americans believe that in many cases, climate change is to blame. Roughly three-quarters of respondents to a…
A new subpopulation of Greenland polar bears offers insights into how this species might hang on as Arctic ice disappears.
As England, Spain and huge swaths of the U.S. deal with record-shattering high temperatures, the time has come to stop looking at heat and heat waves as temporary inconveniences. As…
Looking deep within mammalian spit-producing glands, scientists were recently surprised to find an ancient cell type long thought to exist primarily in the slimy skin of frogs and fish. Such…
Donald Trump may have been more ill than anyone suspected when he checked in at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 2, 2020. The then president, 74 years…
The first images released from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed new views of the cosmos in exquisite, never-before-seen detail. This was thanks in large part to the careful…
CLIMATEWIRE | President Joe Biden yesterday unveiled a major expansion of U.S. wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico and vowed to take more executive action on global warming in…
This story was co-published with the Monterey Herald and supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. It’s 1988. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is four years old, and so am…
The now infamous condition long COVID presents as a wide range of symptoms—everything from persistent chest pains to rashes, pins and needles, and brain fog. Doctors can diagnose long COVID…