New research unveils the true death toll of the deadly August 2023 wildfires which took place in L膩hain膩, Maui, Hawai驶i鈥攁nd which temporarily made wildfire a leading cause of death in Maui. By comparing death rates over ...
Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural plate widens, stretches and ...
In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of single cells, to identify the functions and activities of any cell through the course of health or ...
The first time I saw the Ada Tree, I felt tiny. It was October 2015, just days after arriving in Victoria to study mountain ash forests. During a visit to the Central Highlands, we went to see the Ada Tree鈥攐ne of the largest ...
From toddlers' timeouts to criminals' prison sentences, punishment reinforces social norms, making it known that an offender has done something unacceptable. At least, that is usually the intent鈥攂ut the strategy can backfire. ...
Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: Analyze its chemistry, compare it to known minerals and voil脿. But for geologists, this process can be a time-consuming puzzle requiring specialized expertise and a lot ...
Few tasks are more dreaded than delivering negative feedback.
How do you identify something no one has a test for? Designer drugs replicate the effects of known, illicit drugs but evade law enforcement. The chemical structure variations that help these compounds avoid detection also ...
Teaching about periods in schools is still too focused on basic biological facts, with insufficient information around how menstruation can affect a woman's mood and well-being, problems associated with menstrual bleeding, ...
Does the decision to leave the country unite or divide migrant families? A study by Polish researchers shows how parents and their adult children jointly build narratives about their lives in Germany鈥攕ometimes harmoniously, ...
