False complacency: Hurricane Patricia didn’t devastate Mexico as feared, but provides more evidence that warming waters raise the chances of more intense storms.
Why aren’t more women working the crowds in NH?
Mary Schwalm/REUTERS
Yes, we have Hillary and Carly. But fewer women hold elected office in North Carolina, California and Kansas than they did just five years ago. Hyper-partisanship may be one root cause.
Take your spinach, Popeye. Fortified flour can deliver more of the iron we need.
Jason Lee/Reuters
In a World Series of nutrition, don’t leave iron on the bench. Fortifying flour can prevent the iron deficiency anemia that affects hundreds of millions of women and children globally.
Don’t add sugar.
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Robert Lustig, University of California, San Francisco
Researchers have found that cutting sugar out of kids’ diets can improve their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of metabolic health.
The University of California intends to be carbon-neutral by 2025 by implementing existing technologies and focusing on public education. Is this a model for decarbonizing at large scale?
Satellite-tagged eels, ready for release.
Martin Castonguay, DFO
Much of what we know about these elusive eels’ life cycle has been based on circumstantial evidence. Now for the first time, scientists tracked an adult eel to its distant spawning ground.
A suspected member of the Crips gang is cuffed in LA.
Jonathan Alcorn/REUTERS
The first World Series radio broadcasts were a far cry from today’s pricey television productions.
New forms of life are discovered in high-tech ways that leave yesterday’s natural history collections in the dust.
Detective image via www.shutterstock.com.
Research shows that El Niño creates conditions for a certain type of hurricane – and offers clues as to how climate change can affect the severity of hurricanes.
Do you still need to take that?
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
As people with chronic conditions age or as their health changes, they sometimes need less medication. So when, should a person’s drugs be scaled down?
Unequal education is a result of what happens in schools.
Rick Wilking/Reuters
Is electricity making us sleep less? A new study on sleep in preindustrial societies suggests the answer is no. But it misses a big point: people in preindustrial societies spend more time in darkness than we do.
Looking to the cosmos to find our place in the universe.
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Proponents of Big History say science provides a better sacred story for humanity than traditional faiths. Will this lead to an era of better stewardship of the environment?
Maybe Moments is just the human helping hand new Twitter users need.
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Twitter recently launched Moments, seemingly to solve a business problem. The cutting-edge technology it relies on isn’t technology at all, but rather human curators.
Research on IV devices is underdeveloped, underfunded and understudied. That means doctors don’t always have the information they need to choose the best one for their patients.
Migrants warm up by a fire as they wait to cross into Croatia, October 19 2015.
Marko Djurica/REUTERS
The American Academy of Pediatrics has called its guideline of two hours per day of screen time outdated. So what about the decades of research that led to the original recommendation?
Like in Monopoly, the rents keep on rising.
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About a quarter of all renters are spending at least half of their income on housing, and the situation is projected to get much worse over the next decade.