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Millennium Villages Project works to eradicate hunger
At least a billion people don't know where their next meal is coming from, according to Pedro Sanchez, director of the Millennium Villages Project.
March 1, 2010
Global health impacts of climate change
The biggest global health impacts are to people in developing countries, but people worldwide face some risk to their health from climate change.
March 1, 2010
Going bald is an inherited trait
Baldness is a genetically-inherited trait. A bald head might have been a signal of a good mate early humans. So going bald may be a neutral trait.
February 22, 2010
AAAS meeting in San Diego
This AAAS meeting consists of scientific talks - hundreds of them, by some of the world's leading scientists - with many going on simultaneously.
February 19, 2010
Carol Greider on her 2009 Nobel Prize
Carol Greider figured out that an enzyme called telomerase is what prevents our chromosomes from getting smaller and smaller.
February 15, 2010
Stefanie Held advocates carbon capture and storage
Stefanie Held spoke with EarthSky about carbon capture and storage, a technology being developed to first capture the CO2, then store it safely underground.
February 15, 2010
Christine Biron studies body’s responders to infection
Natural killer or 'NK' cells really make a difference between health and disease, says Christine Biron, "They can kill, or help kill, virus- infected cells."
February 8, 2010
Francis Collins, speaks on 5-year priorities
Francis Collins, director of the NIH., spoke to EarthSky about NIH priorities for the next five years.
February 1, 2010
Do the blind ‘see’ in dreams?
Do the blind dream as sighted people do? It turns out sensory experiences that are important in waking life also play a large role in dreams.
January 25, 2010
Andy Jarvis models the effect of climate change on world’s top 50 crops
Andy Jarvis said studies have focused primarily on wheat, corn and rice, but food security on a global level depends on a lot more than those three big crops.
January 25, 2010
