Climate Change Has Made Allergy Season Worse. How Do We Cope?
In many parts of the United States, spring has sprung. There’s nothing quite like those first few beautiful days of spring. They’re delightful—until the sneezing starts.According to the CDC, a quarter...
8 Apr 202515min
Microdosing Peanut Butter Could Alleviate Some Peanut Allergies
Over the past two decades, rates of peanut allergies in children have more than tripled. A variety of theories has been proposed to explain this, from a rise in industrialization keeping kids away fro...
7 Apr 202517min
The Department Of Health And Human Services Cuts 10,000 Jobs
The cuts hit multiple agencies, affecting work on HIV, gun violence prevention, vaccines, minority health research, and more.On April 1, thousands of federal health workers woke up to find that they h...
4 Apr 202512min
Forecasting Cuts Spark Worries About Hurricane Season | Soothing Babies With Music
Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecast. And, babies like music, but they generally have preferences. A mus...
3 Apr 202517min
Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Wonders Below
In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago splintered off from the Antarctic Peninsula and drifted away in the Bellingshausen Sea.As luck would have it, a team of scientists was nearby on a research v...
2 Apr 202517min
TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD
Mental health information on social media can be both revelatory and misleading. How do clinicians and their patients make sense of it?TikTok and other social media sites are full of mental health con...
1 Apr 202518min
Engineering Lessons One Year After The Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Engineers take an in-depth look at why the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed and how to prevent future tragedies.In the early morning of March 26, 2024, the container ship Dali struck th...
31 Mar 202518min
23andMe Bankruptcy | A Coating That Can Slow A Golf Ball’s Roll
The company has genetic data of 15 million people, which could be shared with a future buyer. Here’s how to delete it. Plus, an experimental coating could make golf balls roll more reliably on greens ...
28 Mar 202524min
