Even as the vaccine roll-out picks up speed, the end of face masks in public could be a year or more away as questions of transmissibility...
Raúl Delgado Wise is an academic, activist, and author and editor of numerous books, chapters, and articles. He is the president and founder of the International...
In its simplest form, the Casimir effect is an attractive interaction between two uncharged and perfectly conducting plates held a short distance apart—usually less than a...
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Scientists have started sounding the alarm over a strange new theory circulating online about the novel coronavirus. Basically, it argues...
On May 29, 1810, Katherine Fritsch, a sister in the Moravian Church, boarded a coach in Lititz, Pennsylvania, along with a group of her friends...
DIY hardware, such as this 3D-printed fluorescence microscope, is bringing cutting-edge research and diagnostics to resource-limited areas.Credit: Stuart Robinson/Univ. Sussex Eyes trained on the cells under...
The Earth911 team combs news and research for interesting ideas and stories about the challenges of creating a sustainable world. We call it the Earth911 Reader...
Only after new methods emerged for assessing statistics did the previously invisible entity now called ‘population’ become a target for objective investigation. Image: MIT Press...
When all the votes are cast and counted in this year’s momentous November 3 election, the results will have deep and potentially long-lasting impacts on numerous...
The Earth911 team combs news and research for interesting ideas and stories about the challenges of creating a sustainable world. We call it the Earth911 Reader...