We Can Make Football Safer
Credit: Ted Kinsman/Science SourceSeveral years ago, I was at a pre-season football practice at a high school where I was working with the team on a concussion research project. The players were lined up in two rows facing each other and with little more instruction from the coach than, “on the whistle, hit the man
Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem
Concrete is everywhere: in buildings, roads, sidewalks, bridges and foundations for almost every structure imaginable. We make more concrete than we do any other material on Earth, and that volume is rising because of global development, especially in China and India. Cement—the powdery binder that holds the sand or crushed stone in concrete together—is one
Inside the Race to Find Earth’s Oldest Ice
A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter futureWhipping winds scour the snow and ice in the Allan Hills area of Antarctica, where a team of scientists set up camp this
Scientists Decipher 57 Letters That Mary, Queen of Scots Wrote before Her Beheading
In newly deciphered letters written from captivity in the late 1500s, deposed queen of Scotland Mary Stuart complained about her health and tried to negotiate her releaseA painting of Mary, Queen of Scots attributed to P. Oudry, 1578. Credit: Gustavo Tomsich/CORBIS/Getty ImagesA mysterious sheaf of coded letters tucked away in the National Library of France
COVID Rebound Can Happen Even without Paxlovid
Credit: whyframestudio/Getty ImagesPaxlovid gets a bad rap over concerns about COVID “rebound.” That’s the primary takeaway from a series of papers showing that whether or not people take the antiviral medication, many have symptoms that wax and wane before going away completely. Over the past few months a number of peer-reviewed and preprint studies have
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