Space explorers need grit, strength and resolve to navigate the hostile environments beyond Earth. This might explain why around 60 percent of NASA’s astronauts have come from military service. A smaller fraction have had medical experience. And Jonny Kim is among the fewer than a dozen in NASA’s history to share both backgrounds. After serving… Continue reading Jonny Kim’s Third Act: NASA Astronaut
If DOGE and MAHA Aim to Cut Waste and Control Health Costs …
Two mandates defining the incoming Trump administration are clear: cut wasteful spending and improve Americans’ health. The goals are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they share a solution. Health-care price transparency, an effort President Trump championed during his first term but which stalled out under Biden, is the low-hanging fruit that Trump’s firebrand appointees can… Continue reading If DOGE and MAHA Aim to Cut Waste and Control Health Costs …
Methane Leaks Are Everywhere. The Trump Administration May Repeal Penalty Meant to Reduce Them
November 12, 2024 4 min read Methane Leaks Are Everywhere. The Trump Administration May Repeal Penalty Meant to Reduce Them A fee created to push oil and gas companies to plug methane leaks could be axed by the incoming Trump administration, hampering efforts to curb the potent greenhouse gas By Jean Chemnick & E&E News… Continue reading Methane Leaks Are Everywhere. The Trump Administration May Repeal Penalty Meant to Reduce Them
I Am Proud of My 17-Year-Old Self Who Bravely Chose Life
It has taken me 18 years to tell my story. But thanks to the women around me, and my beautiful children, I finally have the courage to speak about my past, so I can offer hope and healing to women like me who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. I was about to graduate high school… Continue reading I Am Proud of My 17-Year-Old Self Who Bravely Chose Life
We Need to Ensure Legal Cannabis Is Safe
Fruit-flavored gummies. Tinctures. Creams. Today’s cannabis is not simply dried flowers in plastic baggies or the special ingredient in dorm-room brownies. These days, it comes in candy form, suppositories and even vaporizable dab and wax concentrates. This new cannabis is heavily engineered, cultivated and manufactured to reach THC concentrations of up to 90 percent (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol),… Continue reading We Need to Ensure Legal Cannabis Is Safe
Chris Wright Is Perfect Pick to Lead Trump’s Department of Energy
How do you restore a bloated and misdirected U.S. Department of Energy to its originally intended purpose of assuring affordable and reliable American energy? The answer is to appoint a highly knowledgeable and successful energy producer to the position of Energy Secretary. Donald Trump made the perfect pick in Chris Wright. A mechanical and electrical… Continue reading Chris Wright Is Perfect Pick to Lead Trump’s Department of Energy
The U.S. Must Lead the Global Fight against Superbugs
November 13, 2024 4 min read The U.S. Must Lead the Global Fight against Superbugs Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S. policymakers can help fix it By Howard Dean edited by Daniel Vergano Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of bacteria cultured from… Continue reading The U.S. Must Lead the Global Fight against Superbugs
Insects Are More Than Just Pesky Pests
[CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Plenty of us only think about insects when we’re trying to keep them out of our homes. But the truth is that our fates and fortunes are totally intertwined with all sorts of bugs. Here to tell us more is Barrett Klein,… Continue reading Insects Are More Than Just Pesky Pests
How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
We have identified thousands of planets just in our neighborhood in the Milky Way, mostly from the way they impact their host stars. Basic calculations suggest that there are countless more across the galaxy, and that billions of them could potentially support life. But what kind of life they host, and how we would be… Continue reading How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
The Man from Taured
Podcast: Download MYS343: In Japan, 1954, a man arrives at airport customs with a passport from country that doesn’t exist. He’s arrested, but then vanishes. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who was the man from Taured and could have come from a parallel world as some claim? Get all new episodes automatically and for… Continue reading The Man from Taured