In the past, we talked about ‘the role of ethnobotany in scientific research’. This week, we are looking into the role of scientific research in ...

At the Washington Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., White House World Cup task force executive director Andrew ...

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As climate change roasts cities around the world, history shows that air conditioning can be the difference between life and death for vulnerable people – but it comes at a cost. A 67 million-year-old ...

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Jessica Elliott is no stranger to Pickering Creek. She first joined the Center as a seasonal educator in 2021, teaching classroom and outdoor environmental lessons to K-12 students throughout the ...

Do you want to contribute solutions to environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, pollution, water use and land use? Environmental scientists advance our understanding ...

No leader can succeed without mastering the art of persuasion. But there’s hard science in that skill, too, and a large body of psychological research suggests there are six basic laws of winning ...

Revelers typically mark Independence Day with a barbecue and fireworks show, but these festivities across the country offer quirky alternatives America at 250: The Revolutionary Spark When Clarence ...

Award winning science correspondent and TV journalist Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday, heard on public radio stations across the country and distributed by WNYC Studios. He anchors the show ...

How does the mind work? This is the foundational tenet of cognitive science. It is the interdisciplinary study of human behavior and intelligence, with a focus on how information is perceived, ...

During this time, advancing optical technology repeatedly opened new sub-fields of atomic, molecular and solid-state science, most notably real-time chemistry 4. It also became possible to do ...