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Isamu Akasaki, a Japanese physicist who helped develop blue light emitting diodes, a breakthrough in LED design that earned him a Nobel Prize and changed the way the world is lit, died Thursday in a hospital in Nagoya, Japan. He was 92…

"They had a sense of resilience and 'grit', even prepandemic which I think served them well," she said. "I see an ability to pan."In Dr. Luther's research actually regressed reports of loneliness for seventh and eighth grade students…

And now the United States is facing a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed black Americans who make up a large part of the essential workforce but are less likely to have access to health care. As the federal and state…

Dr. Nathanson often urges patients to develop this technique further by engaging with metaphors and visual symbolism. When their patients are feeling stuck, they can create a scene of them standing behind a wall that represents their…

In the first nine months of the pandemic, Unicef ​​estimates that around 116 million babies were born worldwide. This led researchers to scramble to answer a critical question: could the virus be transmitted through breast milk? Some…

She grew up in Hungary, daughter of a butcher. She decided she wanted to be a scientist, although she had never met one. She moved to the United States in her 20s, but for decades never found a permanent position, instead clinging to the…

Polje, blanket, vuggy, psammit. Some scientists studying caves may not turn a blind eye, but for the rest of us these terms might as well be ancient Greek.The technical terminology does not only apply to the ivory tower. For example, ask…

The prospect of a fourth wave of coronavirus, with new cases skyrocketing in the upper Midwest, has sparked renewed debate among vaccine experts about how long to wait between first and second doses. Extending this period would quickly…

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said she will not attend the next international climate negotiations unless everyone can be vaccinated equally and safely participate."Inequality and climate injustice are already at the heart of the…

In the summer of 2017, Joshua Miller, then a student at Augustana College in Illinois, visited a field research camp in Wyoming and picked up some stones. Rounded at the edges and the size of small fists, they were out of place in the…