Science is a way of thinking
May 28, 2023
Fewer than half of Republican voters would support former President Donald Trump if the GOP primary were held today, according to a new poll that also shows the 45th president losing support among young voters and those with at least a college degree. The New York Times/Siena College survey shows Trump has the backing of 49% of
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A group representing schools across the state would like to see its draft legislation add climate education throughout grade levels and core classes. Student activism around climate change has been ramping up in recent years, with students across Oregon and the country leading walkouts and protests. Students see climate change discussions on social media and they talk about
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America First group lays groundwork as Trump weighs 2024 run Nonprofit also developing policy for Republican-led Congress A group of Donald Trump’s former aides is preparing a turnkey administration for his return to the White House, as the embattled former president hints that he’s preparing to make a third run for the nation’s highest office.
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Two years ago, forecasters in the UK conducted an interesting thought experiment: What will our forecasts look like in 2050? The climate crisis is pushing weather to the extreme all over the world, and temperatures in the northern latitudes have been particularly sensitive to these changes. So meteorologists at the UK Met Office — the official weather forecast agency for the
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The first Pompeiian human genome has been sequenced. Research that was recently published in Scientific Reports presents the first human genome that has been successfully sequenced from a person who passed away in Pompeii, Italy, after Mount Vesuvius’ explosion in the year 79 CE. Only little segments of mitochondrial DNA from Pompeiian human and animal remains have been
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Testing bottlenecks and vaccine rollout problems have let the monkeypox virus spread unchecked, echoing the mistakes of the U.S. COVID response Waits in long lines. A shortage of testing. People scrambling to refresh websites for vaccine appointments. But this time, it’s not COVID—it’s monkeypox. The number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. had reached 1,053
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A study suggests the rodents encourage root growth, but the research has its skeptics Pocket gophers certainly don’t qualify as card-carrying 4-H members, but the rodents might be farming roots in the open air of their moist, nutrient-rich tunnels. The gophers subsist mostly on roots encountered in the tunnels that the rodents excavate. But the
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