by Aiden Tuan | Sep 26, 2025 | ScienceWire
A new finding from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory offers a new insight into ice’s properties, writes member Karyn Hede. Despite appearing rigid and its perfectly hexagonal lattice structure, ice itself is rather flexible and malleable and thus offers an...
by Aiden Tuan | Sep 26, 2025 | ScienceWire
Catastrophes are hard, if not brutal to go through, yet with the right mindset they can change us for the better with lasting, positive alterations, writes member Sara Zaske. A randomized trial showed that people who were given intervention that helped change their...
by Aiden Tuan | Aug 14, 2025 | ScienceWire
Heat has become an increasing issue with rising temperatures. Hot summers have forced many to rely on air conditioning, but in turn forcing more power consumption. To alleviate this issue, some researchers have turned to the past to find solutions as member Diya...
by Aiden Tuan | Aug 14, 2025 | ScienceWire, Uncategorized
From member Sarah Trent: Bird banding, the act of putting metal bands around bird legs for identification, has been invaluable to ornithologists. The Bird Banding Lab – a program of the U.S. Geological Survey’s biological research arm has been instrumental in such...
by Aiden Tuan | Aug 14, 2025 | ScienceWire
New member Rachael Hoover writes about an exciting experiment that NASA is conducting to explore the effects of space travel on the human body. Instead of using actual humans, the experiment will be conducted with fruit flies. Despite their small size, these flies...
by Aiden Tuan | Aug 14, 2025 | ScienceWire
A new directive from Trump’s White House was given to NASA – to land the first humans on Mars, member Alexandra Witze writes. This, however, has come at a tumultuous time for the agency as the federal government has proposed to cancel many of the space agency’s other...
