On April 25, the Monongalia County Board of Education hopes to award a contract to build the highly anticipated new STEM school. The Renaissance Academy, as it will be […]
Tag: science
How to recharge your body’s battery
by Elissa Epel My phone is showing that little red low-battery bar, and I need to plug it in immediately or lose my connection. What if I didn’t recharge — […]
Science Twitter needs a new home
by Lisa Jarvis I will miss science Twitter. It’s hard to overstate the influence of the social network on science during the COVID-19 pandemic — and the pandemic’s influence on […]
Fusion energy isn’t just a pipe dream anymore
The timeline of history is etched not just by wars and revolutions but also by moments when science yields a discovery that forever changes the course of humanity. It appears […]
Sleep is getting more respect
But only as a way to increase productivity by Dr. Jennifer Mundt Sleep is finally having its moment. I’m a sleep researcher and clinician, and it’s exhilarating to see broader […]
A diabetes breakthrough in search of patients
by Lisa Jarvis In a first, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a therapy that slows the onset of Type 1 diabetes. Teplizumab, developed by Provention Bio, typically […]
Can scientists moonlight as activists?
by Nicholas Goldberg Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chained himself to the doors of the Wilson Air Center in Charlotte, N.C., a couple weeks ago […]
Prof. uses social media to increase public’s interest in WVU’s research ‘mushroom’
BY AUTUMN SHELTON WV PRESS ASSOCIATION Popular media is full of the mad scientist character — typically an eccentric, erudite individual who somehow turns himself into a common housefly, shrinks […]
Science is humanity’s hope
NASA this week successfully did what it normally tries to avoid, and destroyed one of its own spacecraft — by ramming it into an asteroid. It was the first step […]
Plastic might be making you obese
by Mark Buchanan The global obesity epidemic is getting worse, especially among children, with rates of obesity rising over the past decade and shifting to earlier ages. In the U.S., […]
