Pyramids of Giza
Science & Technology

Scientists Have an Answer to How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built

Using sand, water, and a scale model of an ancient Egyptian transport sled, a team of international scientists ...
raw oysters on the half shell
Plants & Animals

Oysters Provide Scientific Food For Thought

Reading oysters for 17th century Jamestown history
A medical professional prepares a patient for testing.
Health

The ABCs of Ebola

A is for don’t panic. The rest is science.
Title card for Weird Al Yankovic: #WordCrimes
Arts & Culture

The Prose and Pedagogy of “Weird Al” Yankovic  

The pedagogy in the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic
A lone aequorea victoria, a bioluminescent jellyfish, in the ocean.
Natural Science

Happy Birthday, Osamu Shimomura!

August 27th marked the birthday of Osamu Shimomura, the organic chemist who discovered green fluorescent protein in 1962. ...
Opening lines of Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" written in 1964.
Arts & Culture

Lunch Poems Turns 50

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Frank O’Hara’s groundbreaking book Lunch Poems.
Anopheles stephens, a mosquito found in urban India, drawing human blood.
Plants & Animals

Mosquitoes: The Science Behind the Pests

Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others? How you smell to a mosquito affects how much you're bit.
Teenagers with internet addcition
Education & Society

Internet Addiction?

In the new documentary “Web Junkie” by filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, viewers are introduced to Daxing ...
Plastic and trash litter a shoreline.
Natural Science

“Plastic Rock” Marks the Presence of Humans in the Fossil Record

Plastic in the ocean has created an entirely new kind of rock: plastiglomerate.
Dr. Jeanine Vélez Gavilán, Global Plants Initiative Steering Committee Member, at the MAPR Herbarium.
Science & Technology

JSTORies: Jeanine Vélez Gavilán

Jeanine Vélez Gavilán discusses her career in botany, her passion for endangered plants, and how climate change challenges botanists today. Visit ...