As the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, geography graduate student Megan Baumann…
Free Flight Ground Testing of ADEPT in Advance of the Sounding Rocket One Flight Experiment
Abstract: The Adaptable Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) project will be conducting the first flight…
New report shows compelling reasons to decriminalise sex work
We recently studied the health and safety of sex workers in Western Australia. While such a…
Current understanding of animal welfare currently excludes fish, even though fish feel pain
A leading expert in fish behaviour argues that our fundamental understanding and assessment of animal welfare…
Take a walk on Mars—in your own living room
When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on Mars, they can…
Image: Jovian moon shadow
Jupiter's moon Amalthea casts a shadow on the gas giant planet in this image captured by…
Researchers explore walleye for aquaculture
More than a thousand walleye are in the six sets of circular water tanks at the…
10 years of the trapped rainbow—the revolution of slow light
A decade on from suggesting light can be dramatically slowed - or even stopped - by…
Your body’s cells use and resist force, and they move. It’s mechanobiology
Mechanical forces rule biological processes, from the contractions of the pump-like heart, to muscles that resemble…
The search for the Southern rubber boa
High in the San Jacinto Mountains about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, a secret slithers.…