MORGANTOWN — Laughter, curiosity and hands-on discovery filled the Morgantown Public Library on Saturday, as West Virginia University students and faculty hosted Talk to a Scientist: Physics in Your Body, a free community outreach event designed for children ages 6 –10. The interactive ...
by F.D. Flam Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying power may be that way due to molecular-level advantages. Studying those could further the quest to understand and slow down the ravages of ...
When people are given more power, we want to believe they’ll use it for good. But sometimes, they don’t. Sometimes people use their power for selfish gains at the expense of innocent lives. Power, as most people think of it, is the ability to get certain things done. For ...
Humans have tried to use tools to decrease the amount of physical labor we do for most of the time we’ve been a species on this planet. This includes building tools to ease gardening, creating pulleys and inventing the wheel. And as things have become more digital, we have turned to ...
by Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate entities, one concerned with the physical world and validated by ...
I have known about climate change since I was very young. My parents and teachers would discuss the harmful effects of increased carbon emissions across the world: animals becoming endangered, the average temperature of the earth increasing and strange weather patterns. The heartbreaking ...