It turns out that warm-blooded animals aren’t warm all of the time! Researchers at Brown University studying the muscles in bats’ wings found that their wings operate at a significantly lower temperature than their bodies, especially...

Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, MFA, is an Associate professor in the School of Journalism where she serves as the Improvisation Program Director in the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. She teaches workshops and graduate courses at...

Lori Bindig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and Director of the M.A. in Communication at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She earned her doctorate in Communication at...

Water connects us all. Understanding the health of our waterways is critical to the health and wellness of communities across the world. Find out what it takes to be a water quality specialist for a sovereign Native American community.

In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit introduces both herself and Missoula, Montana as hosts of the channel. Future Field Trip locations are revealed, and we break down our first Wild Word: ecology.

In this week's episode we explore an iPad app that makes learning weather fun. We get a glimpse of the ancient world through 20-million year old Amber. We discover how a flat sheet of paper can transform into a robot. We discover...

Ecologists take a comprehensive look at sagebrush habitat through the eyes of a small, but important, resident



Description: The Lemhi Valley is a high desert sagebrush steppe environment in eastern Idaho, along the...

Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



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In this week’s episode of NSF Science Now, we learn about a new app for bird watchers, girls and stereotypes, beluga whale migration and, finally, the discovery of a 250-million-year-old shark-like fish. Check it out!

In this week’s episode, we explore an iPad app that makes learning weather fun; we get a glimpse of the ancient world through 20-million-year-old Amber; we discover how a flat sheet of paper can transform into a robot; we discover...

"Openness" and "restructuring" led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. But if it also led to the collapse of orthodox economics, James Galbraith wouldn't mind.



The University of Texas economist outlines how the profession...

Rozanna Lilley grew up in South Perth, the youngest of five children. Her parents – Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley – were both left wing radicals and writers. They moved to Sydney in Lilley’s last year of primary school. After school,...

Carrots will make you see in the dark, Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. These can't actually be true right? Well maybe there is more to these than you first thought.

Julian Vasquez Heilig leads nearly 3,000 students, staff and faculty as the Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education. He is also a tenured professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. While at UK, the College of...

Strong enforcement of property rights is good for economic growth, says the conventional wisdom. The link may not be as clear cut, says Suresh Naidu. He and co-investigator Jeremiah Dittmar are digging through court records and...

At least since Joseph Schumpeter we know that credit is good for economic growth. At least since 2007 we know that too much credit foreshadows financial turmoil. Inspired by Keynes and Minsky, Dirk Bezemer pieces together a cross-country...

William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar, a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, a Scholar in Residence and Lecturer on Media and Education at the University of Eastern Finland, and an award-winning, bestselling author and...

Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007 Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal...

Bats can be carriers of the coronavirus but they are themselves highly resistant to the disease, according to University of Rochester researchers.

The U.S. is approaching human gene editing with more caution, while scientists in China are racing to experiment with gene editing. What are the latest progress and the social and ethical implications?

A new international study has measured the densities of the seven Earth-size planets around TRAPPIST-1 with extreme precision

Did you know that around 1920 Cleveland, Ohio, had a technological cutting edge not unlike Silicon Valley today? Probably you didn't, because Cleveland lost its edge during the Great Depression, and its innovation networks were never...

In this episode of NSF Science Now, we also learn about a new tool for combating mosquito-borne disease, we explore how kirigami is inspiring new materials, and finally, we discover new hydrothermal vents. Check it out!

In this week’s episode, we learn about new technology for the blind; a newly engineered yeast, and finally, we explore the oceans with Mantis cam. Check it out!