How Cannibalistic Tadpoles Could Curb Invasive Cane Toads
South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread acro...
4 Juni 202518min
Turning The Binoculars On Birders
Birding is a hobby that attracts a very particular group of people: the kind who get up at sunrise, go into the woods, and wait for hours for a little tiny feathered friend to fly past. Author and ill...
3 Juni 202518min
The Leap: Be Bold Or Just Don't Do It
As a young plant scientist, Joanne Chory shook up the research establishment with her unconventional approach to figuring out how plants work. Her methods and success changed the field, and led her to...
2 Juni 202526min
What Huge Cuts To NSF Funding Mean For Science
Grant funding by the National Science Foundation has been cut by more than half this year, bringing the foundation’s science funding to its lowest level in decades. Katrina Miller, who covers science ...
30 Maj 202519min
What Happens When Air Traffic Control Systems Go Dark?
At the end of April, air traffic control radar surveillance and radio communication systems at Newark Liberty International Airport went dark for over a minute. A week and half later, radar went down ...
29 Maj 202516min
Could The NIH Plan For A ‘Universal Vaccine’ Really Work?
At the beginning of May, the National Institutes of Health, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, announced a plan to develop a universal vaccine platform. Think: a single shot for flu ...
28 Maj 202527min
The Leap: This Is Going To Kill Your Career
Betül Kaçar started her scientific career as a biochemist, working on an enzyme found in zebrafish. But then she found her calling: investigating some of the hardest questions in evolutionary biology ...
27 Maj 202523min
The Science Of That Big Stunt From The New ‘Mission: Impossible’
The “Mission: Impossible” franchise is known for its big stunts, and the newest film is no exception. Producer Kathleen Davis talks to the film’s stunt coordinator, Wade Eastwood, about the science be...
23 Maj 202519min
