By Mercedez Dunn-Gallier At Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the emerging Black middle class is schooled in respectability. These are codes of conduct for “acceptable” behavior that HBCUs expect …
You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8 percent of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a …
South_agency/Getty Images If you have swiped through fitness-related content on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok lately, chances are that an influencer on your feed has taken steroids. A recent global meta-study …
How exactly ancient toolmakers survived the harsh conditions remains a mystery
An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria. Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein rapidly cleared carbon monoxide from their blood, safely eliminating it …
Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly overactivated for weeks on end, they degenerate and ultimately die. This …
Scrap vehicles contain many different metal alloys, which can be hard to recycle Marc Hill/Alamy A new way to recycle the metal from scrap cars could eliminate millions of tonnes …
Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut
A recent bout of the common cold may be a defense against a COVID-19 infection. A study that included the nasal swabs of more than 1,000 participants assessed whether infections …
The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, …