Opinion: Occupy the Classroom
The single step that would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at all. It’s an expansion of early childhood education.
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The First Direct Image of a Baby Planet Being Born! (Maybe!) (But Probably!)
Astronomers may have, for the first time, directly imaged a planet still in the process of formation, gathering material from a debris disk surrounding its parent star.
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Energy: Friend or Enemy?
A review of The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz and Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use, a report by the National Research Council’s Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption.
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Why the U.S. Needs to Learn More Science
If the U.S. wants to keep its prominence as a world power and technological innovator in the 21st century, we need to work fast.
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Ancestor of All Living Things More Sophisticated Than Thought
The mysterious common ancestor of all life on Earth may have been more complex than before thought—a sophisticated organism with an intricate structure, scientists now suggest.
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History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
A small cadre of diverse collaborators in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics, and linguistics have spent the last two and half years working on a forthcoming book, Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present (University of California Press) that serves as a kind of manifesto for their cause. As the authors explain, deep history emphasizes…
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Opinion: An Electrifying Ancestor
We know we got here from somewhere, but who would have suspected it was by way of a fish that used electrical currents to hunt and communicate and locate itself?
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Cancer-Free Rodent Genome May Hold Key to Aging, Disease
Scientists announced that they have succeeded in sequencing the full genome of the naked mole rat, an exceptionally long-lived and cancer-resistant rodent. While that might not sound like headline news, scientists say the findings could provide insights into human aging and risks for malignancy.
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Cities Will Feel Brunt as Global Population Passes 7 Billion
To Joel Cohen, a professor of populations at Columbia, whether the Earth will be able to sustain 7 billion humans, 9 billion or 10 billion will “depend on choices we and future generations make.”
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5 Books on Global Food Systems
From Colin Sage’s Environment and Food to Michael Carolan’s The Real Cost of Cheap Food, here are a handful of new food books from the fall season that are worth checking out.