Since its inception in 1983, Kilauea’s Pu‘u‘‘ cone has risen and fallen as magma levels in the volcano’s active East Rift Zone varied. However, Pu‘u‘‘ announced its retirement with a rumble on April 30, 2018. Like an unclogged sink, the once-brimming basin trickled down into the earth. Newly freed lava crept eastward from the summit…
COVID-19 has claimed the lives of about 675,000 people in the United States, according to the CDC. This outbreak has surpassed the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of mortality, making it the deadliest in recent American history. Vaccines are our most powerful weapon in the fight against the new coronavirus. In the United States, three…
Few things in life attract more unsolicited advice than how to care for one’s children. However, advice on what to eat, when to eat it, and how much to eat usually takes the cake. As a result, it’s normal if you’re concerned about nutrition and wellness as a parent or caretaker. While there is unlikely…
COVID mortality continues to rise across the United States, mainly among unvaccinated populations, prompting renewed interest in newly developed treatments. Monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy is one of the most successful treatments available. Patients are given high doses of antibodies specifically tailored to attack SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, as part of this treatment. These…
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Apple is collaborating with UCLA to create new technology that employs face recognition and other behavioral tracking technologies to detect sadness in iPhone users. Apple appears to be contemplating a world where your phone could tell you that your mood has been dismal by using information that…
According to new data, Americans are becoming more accepting of people of all colors, nationalities, and sexual orientations. Nonetheless, discrimination against persons from marginalized groups continues at alarmingly high levels. Two explanations have been presented by scientists to explain this seeming contradiction. According to the distributed discrimination theory, most people—even those with strong egalitarian beliefs—engage…
Researchers have been progressively gaining fresh and significant insights regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the body and brain while the epidemic has been in the rearview mirror for more than 18 months. These discoveries have raised worries about the coronavirus’s long-term effects on biological processes such as aging. My previous study as a cognitive…
Last semester in my Harvard freshman class, I stated that Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun, emits largely infrared radiation and has a planet, Proxima b, in the habitable zone around it. “Suppose organisms are crawling on the surface of Proxima b?” I challenged the students. “What might their infrared-sensitive eyes look like?”…
Copyright 2021, from Leigh Cowart’s Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose. PublicAffairs, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., has granted permission for this reprint. I’m sitting in the driver’s seat of a rental car in a dusty lot of the county fairgrounds in Auburn, California, my hands trembling subtly.…
Fresh eyes can transform the world, and a world beset by pandemics, climate change, and unfairness is primed for change like none we’ve ever seen. That’s why, after a five-year hiatus, Popular Science is reintroducing the Brilliant 10: an annual list of early-career scientists and engineers who are coming up with novel solutions to issues…