A wonderfully fun study published in February 2022 asked a provocative question: what are the physiological determinants of trail running performance? The authors had me hooked in the abstract. So I ...
Back in 2013, Charles Hoeffer from the University of Colorado Boulder was studying memory and learning in mice. He was looking at a specific protein in the brain called AKT1, which helps mice forget ...
Suppose you are about to meet a person for the first time and want to predict that person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a variety of settings over the next several years. What single piece of ...
A new AI program observed physical phenomena and uncovered relevant variables -- a necessary precursor to any physics theory. But the variables it discovered were unexpected. A precursor step to ...
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 45, No. 5, Special Issue: Sensing Race as a Ghost Variable in Science, Technology, and Medicine (September 2020), pp. 848-876 (29 pages) This paper traces the ...
In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...
Cell, the flagship biology journal of Cell Press, presents a landmark issue on sex and gender in science. It includes a collection of articles on topics related to strategies for promoting gender ...
A new image taken with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA survey telescope reveals the famous Trifid Nebula in a new and ghostly light. By observing in infrared light, astronomers can see ...