In 2006 a 26-year-old California man named Uriah Courtney was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and rape, despite having an alibi for the time the crimes were committed. “And there were two witnesses. They saw a lineup in the police station, and they both identified the same person. And he was convicted, entirely based […]
The success of SpaceX’s first-ever crewed mission has NASA very optimistic about the future of human spaceflight. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico today (Aug. 2), wrapping up the company’s historic Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station. Demo-2’s May 30 launch was […]
With protesters in many American cities marching for justice, and with the Supreme Court delivering a historic ruling protecting gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, this summer is shaping up to be a watershed moment for equality in America. But while much of our national conversation is focused on urgent issues like police brutality, […]
Originally published in February 1955 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Many people, particularly scientists, believe that we are suffering in the U.S. from a national epidemic of irrationality—what Senator J.W. Fulbright of Arkansas has called the ‘swinish blight of anti-intellectualism.’ Fluoridation of public water supplies has been recommended by an impressive list of scientific organizations. However, […]
Whether we are constantly checking the number of new infections, tracking the progress of vaccine trials or “anxiety scrolling” through Twitter, the news surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic can be overwhelming. Sorting the good information from the bad and putting each day’s developments into context are not easy. Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the […]
In 2006, a 26-year-old California man named Uriah Courtney was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and rape, despite having an alibi for the time the crimes were committed. “And there were two witnesses. They saw a lineup in the police station and they both identified the same person. And he was convicted entirely […]
Whether we are constantly checking the number of new infections, tracking the progress of vaccine trials or “anxiety scrolling” through Twitter, the news surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic can be overwhelming. Sorting the good information from the bad and putting each day’s developments into context are not easy. Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the […]
Introduction The Science of Black Holesby Jesse Emspak Section 1: Seeing the Unseen: Finding Black Holes 1.1 Evidence Points to Violent Past for the Milky Way’s Black Hole by John Matson 1.2 Ripples in Spacetime by Clara Moskowitz 1.3 Here Come the Waves by Davide […]
Foxes hunt small animals. And when other predators, including us, kill large animals, foxes are known to scavenge on the leftovers. Now a study of their scavenging shows that foxes have slyly relied on people for food for tens of thousands of years. “I saw that foxes benefit a lot today from humans. And I […]
Against the persisting backdrop of COVID-19, the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests against police brutality, definitions of “health care” have become muddled in crisis and chaos. Coronavirus and state-sanctioned violence have collapsed the role of “physician” to move beyond medicine and include public health, public safety and politics.Lines between medicine and politics have […]