Extreme weather events spawn a new field in climate science
An emerging multidisciplinary field called event attribution can link occurrences such as a specific hurricane or heat wave to climate change with relative confidence.
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SciCommSouth Conference in Austin
You’re invited to the second annual SciCommSouth conference on April 6 in Austin. This day-long meeting is designed for science communicators of all stripes from Texas and surrounding states to meet and share ideas with other communicators from across the region and brush up on skills.
Mar. 6, 2019
Friendly foes: microbiologists explore virus behavior beyond human illness
Humans are accustomed to thinking of viruses as the enemy: lethal pathogens and the couriers of sniffles. But scientists are working to draw a more nuanced picture of the viral landscape, with broader implications.
ArchaeoEcology: New interdisciplinary project shows how human communities shape biodiversity
Human civilizations shape the environments upon which they are built. The rapid pace of change across the globe since the Industrial Revolution clearly demonstrates this trend, but recent research shows it's a common pattern stretching back millennia, affecting many sites across the planet.
Science helps open a door to North Korea
Fears of an eruption of the tallest mountain in the Korean Peninsula may have brought North Korea out of isolation and into the scientific global community.
Graduate STEM education: What’s wrong? What’s next?
Equitable and inclusive environments, exposure to leading-edge science, career exploration opportunities, trained mentors and advisors, and communication skills training are key ingredients for a building a new, well-needed approach to graduate STEM education.
Some like it hot: Extreme microbes react to climate change
Microbes inhabit every facet of Earth. Fungi and bacteria are master colonizers of extreme environments — from the icy Arctic to red hot volcanoes — and control how those environments function on a global scale. But they’re also susceptible to the effects of climate change.
Astrophysicists combine gravitational and radio waves for new views of the explosive universe
A new era of astrophysics has arrived as global teams of scientists join forces to illuminate the universe’s most mysterious and powerful events.
Old analytical technique opens new doors to the past
Thanks to recent advances in an analytical technique called mass spectrometry, researchers are learning valuable new information about topics ranging from the lives of dinosaurs to how George Washington’s mother mended broken pottery.