Touchscreen Tech Can Sense Tainted Water
The touchscreen on your smartphone now has a new use that can save lives: It can detect toxic elements in a water supply.
Category: Life Sciences and Biomedicine
Hotspots of Bat-Human Virus Transmission
Covid-19 is not the first pandemic to strike humanity, and it won’t be the last. Scientists are investigating bat-human virus transmission.
Fight the Bat Killing Fungus
A terrifying bat-killing fungus is tearing through North American bat populations—and scientists have finally found a way to fight back.
Colleges need vaccine mandates
H. Holdent Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of AAAS Science journals explains why college communities will benefit from vaccine mandates in the school year to come.
What do you think about when you sleep?
Sleep is when we process the experiences of the day and form long-term memories. But how does your brain decide which memories to keep?
Music Helps Rebuild Language After Stroke
Stroke survivors with aphasia, the loss of language skills, are helped in their recovery by listening to music with lyrics.
As Ghost Forests Spread, Researchers Ask for Help Keeping Track
Document the formation of ghost forests — stands of dead trees that were recently killed by salt stress — with citizen science.
Urban green spaces make cities happier
Urban green spaces improve mental health, physical well-being, happiness, and community engagement. So why don’t we have more of them?
Lemurs: Where Will They Go?
Did you know that wild lemurs only live in Madagascar, and that their habitat is quickly disappearing? Find out what is being done.
How Do Neurons Tell the Brain What is Familiar?
Neurons send visual information to the brain, but just how it gets processed is a complexity that researchers are getting closer to understanding.