Scientific American • 27th March 2020Here's How Coronavirus Tests Work—and Who Offers Them PCR-based tests are being rolled out in hospitals nationwide, and the Food and Drug Administration is fast-tracking novel approaches as well
Scientific American • 27th March 2020Ocean Species Are Shifting toward the Poles Changes in species abundance can throw food chains out of whack and put livelihoods at risk
Scientific American • 20th March 2020How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge
South Side Weekly • 12th March 2020Meet the Candidates: Kim Foxx The Weekly sits down with the Cook County State’s Attorney
Scientific American • 12th February 2020Deadly Air Pollution Doesn't Respect State Borders U.S. federal authorities have recently been reluctant to step in to mediate cross-border air quality issues among states
South Side Weekly • 4th February 2020What Happened to the Mental Health Task Force? Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady has proposed a new task force to “coordinate” mental health efforts
symmetry magazine • 4th February 2020On background Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it.
Scientific American • 20th January 2020Old Drug, New Tricks: Existing Medicines Show Promise in Fighting Cancer Dozens of compounds approved for other purposes can kill cancer cells selectively
Scientific American • 31st December 2019Strange Superconductor Sends Electrons Both Ways A new material’s strange properties could be useful in future quantum computers
Scientific American • 17th December 2019Ancient "Chewing Gum" Reveals a 5,700-Year-Old Microbiome Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed
Scientific American • 5th December 2019Now Hear This: New Fossils Reveal Early Ear-Bone Evolution A change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear
Nature • 4th December 2019Gene Therapy Arrives After false starts, drugs that manipulate the code of life are finally changing lives.
Scientific American • 30th October 2019Trump's Nativist Rhetoric Scares Immigrants Away from Seeking Medical Care A quarter of surveyed Latino patients said they knew someone who did not go to the hospital because of fear of deportation
In These Times • 3rd October 2019Trump Admin Scrubs Websites of Info on Services for Migrant Children Under Trump, government websites are also more frequently using derogatory language to refer to migrant children.
Scientific American • 19th September 2019Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished Though waterfowl and raptor populations have made recoveries, bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats
Scientific American • 5th September 2019Spaceflight Alters the Gut Microbes of Mice and Men Intestinal bacteria in mice on the space shuttle and International Space Station underwent changes similar to those of astronaut Scott Kelly
symmetry magazine • 13th August 2019Testing DAMA An Italian experiment has a 20-year signal of what could be dark matter—and scientists are embarking on their most promising efforts yet to confirm or refute its results.
Scientific American • 7th August 2019Brazil's Sacked Space Director Speaks Out on Attacks on Science Ricardo Galvão discusses his dismissal after Amazon deforestation data rankled President Bolsonaro
Scientific American • 26th July 2019Detained Migrant Children Need Continuous Medical Care Health care providers say a lack of transparency and communication are barriers to ensuring the children are getting adequate, ongoing treatment
Scientific American • 30th April 2019As Pesticide Turns Up in More Places, Safety Concerns Mount A growing body of research is challenging the assumption that neonicotinoids are safer and less likely to spread than other pesticides
