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Eric Tulsky now leads a hockey team -- and spare a thought for the thinkers A chemist leads the team What if I told you a researcher found a way to spend more time solving problems instead of going to meetings, writing grants, and performing…

The 2024 Olympics, which will begin later this month in Paris, offer more than pageantry. They are also a reminder that economic systems can change. Olympians were once required to be amateurs, forbidden from being paid for their work. Now the…

Books about food often feature pretty, mouthwatering pictures of delicious dishes, not diagrams of chemical structures. But Arielle Johnson’s Flavorama is less like a cookbook and more like an instruction manual about building flavor according to…

As reports pile in about news outlets laying off their science reporters or shutting down altogether, it’s difficult to predict where science journalism is going. And it’s difficult to consolidate that angst with the idea that there are people who…

Water striders’ wild ride Media coverage can often be the push that helps research make a splash. Well, this week’s Newscripts is a little late to that particular party. Andrew Dickerson’s research into what happens to water striders when raindrops…

Beep-beep. Flash. Save! Our senses help us make sense of the world, but sometimes they play tricks on us. The visual signal of someone across the room snapping their fingers reaches your eyes before the event’s sound waves enter your ears. Yet,…

As every October arrives, so do the announcements of the winners of the Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry. The announcements are covered broadly across media, including wire services, general-interest websites, and…

Credit: Wellcome Library, London | Before the 1800s, laboratories and workshops included furnaces, such as in this assaying workspace from Lazarus Ercker's 1574 book Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt und Berckwercksarten (Description…

Our drive to create, extract, and use molecules in novel ways is inextricably tied to disasters—some that erupted in just moments and others that unfolded over decades. Stemming the damage these disasters have caused to the environment and human…

Bicarb benefits without the belch? For athletes, baking soda isn’t something to be thrown into a cake or forgotten in the back of the refrigerator. It’s an established aid for enhancing performance during exercise. Ingesting baking soda raises blood…

At first glance, saliva seems like pretty boring stuff, merely a convenient way to moisten our food. But the reality is quite different, as scientists are beginning to understand. The fluid interacts with everything that enters the mouth, and even…

Most people don’t think about saliva very much — but it plays an active and important role in mediating the flavor of foods, researchers are finding. Individual differences in saliva may even help determine taste preferences. Health & Disease The…

Columbia Pictures//Getty Images Variability, or practicing activities in new contexts, can be pivotal in learning a new skill.Lessons from learning a new language to training for sports to developing artificial intelligence show the importance of…

Salir a correr con auriculares puede ser algo polarizante. Algunas personas sienten la necesidad de escuchar música para mantenerse motivadas a la hora de hacer kilómetros, mientras que otras juran que prefieren omitir los ritmos de las canciones que…

Shokz The practice of running with headphones can be polarizing. Some people feel the need to listen to music to keep them motivated to clock miles, while others swear by skipping beats streaming into their ears so they can hear traffic and other…