Green Steel and the Price of a Cleaner Future
Steel is everywhere. It forms the skeletons of skyscrapers, the frames of cars, the rails beneath trains, and the machines that build modern economies. Yet behind this essential material lies a diffic...
7 Huhti 10min
A Model for the Rarest Cancers: Choroid Plexus Carcinoma and the Li-Fraumeni Inheritable Cancer Syndrome.
In the landscape of childhood cancer, there are diseases so rare that even many physicians will never encounter a single case. Yet within these rare diagnoses lie some of the deepest biological insigh...
2 Huhti 17min
Hidden in the Grass: The Rising Threat of Powassan Virus
On a warm spring afternoon in the northeastern United States, a walk through tall grass can feel harmless, even restorative. Yet hidden in the undergrowth is a growing public health concern that few p...
2 Huhti 9min
Invisible Wounds, Visible Signals: Finding Brain Signals of Military Blast
In the years since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many military veterans have carried home an invisible burden. Blast-related mild traumatic brain injury, often called blast-mTBI, has been describe...
1 Huhti 12min
Being on Someone’s Side: What It Means to Act and Feel on Behalf of Others
What does it really mean to act or feel on behalf of another person? The phrase is familiar in everyday life. Parents apologise on behalf of their children, lawyers speak on behalf of their clients, a...
31 Maalis 10min
How Unnecessary Neonatal Unit Admissions Affect Families and Overstretch Care Systems
In many hospitals around the world, the neonatal unit is seen as the safest place for a newborn baby who needs anything more than basic care provided in the postpartum unit. Yet this well-intentioned ...
30 Maalis 8min
How Light, Air, and Time Shape the Future of Two-Dimensional Materials
Over the past two decades, materials science has been quietly transforming the technological foundations of everyday life. While consumers notice faster phones and more capable computers, the deeper s...
25 Maalis 13min
After the Death of God: Reimagining the Divine with Alain Badiou
What if the most honest way to speak about God today is to begin by admitting that the old images no longer work? For centuries, many believers pictured God as a supreme being who rules the universe f...
23 Maalis 10min
