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06/30/2021

Scorching weather has far outstripped old expectations, but many Americans still have trouble seeing high temperatures as a distinct hazard.

06/20/2021

There’s plenty of evidence showing how important nutrition is for exercise, from aiding performance to enhancing recovery. But it’s often confusing to know whether it’s best to eat before or after you exercise.

First consider what you’re training for, as your goal could influence whether to eat before or not.

06/19/2021

Our 24/7 society seems to be slowly robbing us of our slumber, but at what cost? Sleep expert, professor of neuroscience and author of Why we sleep Dr Matthew Walker explores all the ways sleep can benefit our brains and our health.

06/18/2021

Tuskegee Institute researchers showed Jonas Salk’s vaccine protected children by developing a key test.

Tuskegee Institute researchers showed Jonas Salk’s vaccine protected children by developing a key test

06/16/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Simmonds-Moore! Dr. Simmonds-Moore recently appeared in the Australian SBS/Dateline episode "The fight for America's soul". You can see her interview at the 14:30 mark of the video.

Almost a third of Americans say their religious faith has grown stronger during the pandemic. Bishop Bryan, a priest who has been doing more exorcisms than e...

06/15/2021

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus John Ferling! Dr. Ferling's newest book - Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781 - was featured as an Editor's Pick for recommended new books in the New York Times book section on June 3, 2021.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

06/14/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Jett! Dr. Jett was selected to participate in the 2021-2022 Student Experience Research Network (SERN) Midcareer Fellows Program. The program's goal is to bridge equity-centered research with current topics in policy. He was awarded $64,989 to support his participation in the fellowship.

Student Experience Research Network’s Midcareer Fellows Program supports a community of 15 fellows in collectively bridging research on the structures (i.e., practices, policies, and norms) that shape students’ experience of feeling respected as valued people and thinkers in school with current ...

06/14/2021

Most Americans are probably surprised that we still share a country with these magnificent big cats. But they need help to survive.

Most Americans are probably surprised that we still share a country with these magnificent big cats. But they need help to survive

06/13/2021

If you have symptoms of COVID-19, you should get tested for COVID-19 even if you are fully vaccinated. You won’t be at high risk for hospitalization or severe disease, but if you are infected you may pass the virus to an unvaccinated person, who could then get very sick.

Vaccinated people can still get infected with the coronavirus. So if you have symptoms of COVID-19, getting tested can protect others and help health officials keep an eye on the virus.

06/12/2021

The space agency’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions could boost planetary science when they launch later this decade.

The space agency’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions could boost planetary science when they launch later this decade

06/11/2021

Research suggests there were 30 million to 60 million bison in North America in the 1500s. Four hundred years later, roughly 1,000 bison remained, a result of government policies that encouraged killing off the animals, largely to help defeat Indigenous inhabitants and force them onto reservations.

Can a cross-border effort to bring wild bison to the Great Plains restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems?

06/10/2021

What the Victorian climate scientist John Tyndall learned from the Alps.

In bringing the insights of the laboratory to bear on observations made in the field, Tyndall was applying the physics of the very small—molecules that shifted under pressure, causing ice to melt—to the motion of the very large: glaciers.