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The Father of Environmental Justice Reflects on the Movement He Helped to Start
Four decades into his activism, Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead.
Kelso Harper is a video producer and science journalist. She has degrees in chemistry and science writing from Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Follow Kelso Harper on Twitter @kelso_harper
Four decades into his activism, Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead.
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.
The new field of digital bioacoustics is using machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and whoops.
From North America to South Asia, summer heat waves are becoming longer, stronger and more frequent with climate change.
Humans are building meaningful relationships with AI chatbots. What will the consequences be?
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) and Europa Clipper missions will search for signs of habitability on three of Jupiter’s potentially ocean-bearing moons.
The AI GPT-4 has emergent abilities—but that’s not why it’s scary.
A careful new study reveals coffee is generally safe for your heart and may boost your daily step count.
Insights from Deaf and autistic communities could finally make office spaces better for everyone.
Post-COVID symptoms can linger for months or years, and more and more evidence points to problems with the nervous system.
The burgeoning field of “digital bioacoustics” is helping us understand animals like never before.
Research shows that antifat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient’s story
For decades, assumptions about weight have clouded our view of health
The disaster draws attention to the controversial hydropower projects in the Himalayas
To understand the battle over e-cigarettes, one must look to history—and big tobacco
As the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning...
The Chandra X-ray observatory is celebrating 20 years in space this year, and oh, the things it has seen. Belinda Wilkes, who directs the telescopes operation, takes you on a dizzying visual tour of Chandra's universe...
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