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Topic: Science (page 36)

An illustration shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC on October 2, 2018. - In just three years, the electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul has swallowed the American market with its vaporettes in the shape of a USB key. Its success represents a public health dilemma for health authorities in the United States and elsewhere. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP) (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

The corporate art of deception

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/Totojang)

Scientific misconduct is on the rise

Bhavya Singh - Massive Science
A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Sharks are learning to walk

Nicole Karlis
Neanderthal skull (shutterstock)

Studying the past to change our present

Elizabeth Sawchuk, Mary Prendergast - The Conversation
A pantry is filled with gluten-free food products (Washington Post/Getty Images)

The mystery of celiac disease

Nicole Karlis
Woman eating pizza and drinking wine in front of the refrigerator during the night (Getty Images)

The psychology behind better habits

Ashlie D. Stevens
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket is seen as it launches with the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) onboard, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's ice. (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images)

Satellites: sentinels of a grim future

Jon Gertner - Undark
Cosmic Crisp apples, a new variety and the first-ever bred in Washington state, sit on the tree ready to be picked at an orchard in Wapato, Wash. The Cosmic Crisp, available beginning Dec. 1, is expected to be a game changer in the apple industry. Already, growers have planted 12 million Cosmic Crisp apple trees, a sign of confidence in the new variety. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Cosmic Crisp apple is not the future

Keith A. Spencer
This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Shira Tarlo
"What Science Is and How It Really Works" by James C. Zimring (Cambridge University Press/Getty Images)

Why science is a social construct

James C. Zimring
A man calling himself Henry Hemp inhales marijuana using a vaporizer pen at HempCon medical marijuana show (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Weed vapes may not be as safe as thought

Nicole Karlis
Female Red-backed shrike perched on the twig (Getty Images)

Birds are shrinking. Here's why

Nicole Karlis
Mountain Lion on moss covered rocks (Getty Images/iStock)

Coastal fog is poisoning pumas in Calif.

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Zach Gibson)

Trump defenders and science deniers

Lee McIntyre - The Conversation
Polluting clouds of exhaust fumes rise in the air (Getty Images)

CO2 levels hit a 3 million year high

Nicole Karlis
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler (Getty Images/Salon)

Scientific transparency as a weapon

David Michaels, Bernard D. Goldstein
Saturn with moons (Getty Images)

An Earth-like moon orbiting Saturn

Nicole Karlis
(George Frey/Getty Images)

The greatest scam in history

Naomi Oreskes - TomDispatch.com
Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other as they race around the planet. (NASA)

Neptune's strange, "dancing" moons

Nicole Karlis
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner (Getty Images/Arcade)

The boy who felt too much

Lorenz Wagner
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starlink constellation will eventually consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide world wide high-speed internet service. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why Elon Musk is infuriating astronomers

Nicole Karlis
In this photo taken Tuesday,March 11, 2014, pantry cook Alicia Palenyy uses her bare-hands to put cheese on a salad at the Hock Farm restaurant in Sacramento, Calif. Under a bill signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown, chefs and bartenders in California must keep bare hands off food going straight to the plate or the drink glass, and must use gloves or kitchen utensils such as tongs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

Salad bars an easy target for bioterror

Ana Santos Rutschman - The Conversation
(Shutterstock)

Doctors: Don't panic over new HIV strain

Nicole Karlis
Sick in bed, with tissues and tea (Getty Images/sestovic)

Here's how to avoid this year's flu

Shira Tarlo
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