Maddie Bender
Scientists Spent Years Pretending to Be Neanderthals Catching Birds by Hand
Scientists caught hundreds of birds in Spanish caves by net and by hand over the course of years, to prove a point about how Neanderthals lived.
Why Did Hundreds of Birds Die at the World Trade Center in One Morning?
One volunteer counted 261 dead migratory birds surrounding the World Trade Center complex on Tuesday morning.
Gen Z Is Developing Unexplained Tics After Going Online, And Doctors Are Concerned
Internationally, pandemic-related stressors and social media are converging in an 'epidemic within a pandemic' of Tourettes-like tics in young people.
The COVID-19 Lab Leak Debate Shows How Experts Failed Us
The messy public debate about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is the endpoint of over a year of failures on the part of science communicators.
Doctors and Scientists Are Fighting Vaccine Misinformation on TikTok
The experts of the Team Halo initiative have taken to social media in order to combat falsehoods about COVID-19 and promote accurate vaccine science.
Earth's Biodiversity Could Take Millions of Years to Recover from Human Influence
A new study concludes that extinction rates for gastropods during the fifth mass extinction were worse than believed, and the sixth could be even bigger.
Scientists Turned Spiderwebs Into Music, And It's Hauntingly Beautiful
Spiders rely on the vibrations in their webs to perceive their environment, and now we can hear their mysterious music.
America’s Disastrous Vaccine Rollout Is Finally Recovering. Here’s What Went Wrong
The U.S. is vaccinating people at a clip even as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, and it's time to take stock of what went so wrong in those critical early days.
Why We Need Quantum Tech In Space to Fight Climate Change
Classical Earth observations are reaching their limit, so scientists are probing fundamental physics in space to understand our planet's complexity.
Why We're Finally Closing In On a Game-Changing Universal Flu Vaccine
Only the flu shot is taken annually, but new advances are getting us closer to making that a thing of the past with a lifesaving universal flu vaccine.
Invasive Wasps Are Posing a 'Serious Threat' to Passenger Planes, Study Says
"A single [keyhole] wasp putting a caterpillar in a pitot probe could bring down an aircraft of 350 people.”
Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms
Education scholars say that math homework as it's currently assigned reinforces class divides in society and needs to change for good.