AC or DC: Which Is Better?
Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that?Read More
States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines
As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations.Read More
The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis
The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.Read More
Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico
The disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country this year, with the virus continuing to spread rapidly.Read More
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.Read More
Laine Havens: Melding Science and Storytelling
Science Communication Intern – Goddard Space Flight Center Laine Havens — now a senior at Cornell University and three-time NASA intern — grew up with a deep curiosity about how the universe works and a family that encouraged her to explore it. Throughout her childhood, Laine was immersed in science and exposed to wonderful science [...]
What Your Nighttime Breathing Says About Your Health
Once dismissed as just snoring, sleep apnea is now emerging as an early warning sign for serious conditions like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and depression.Read More
The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments
Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine.Read More
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.Read More
The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid
Stress, isolation, and uncertainty appear to have caused the brain to age quicker for those who lived through the crisis.Read More