Scientific American • 21st May 2020 Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously) The behavior could be an evolutionary adaptation that lets bees forage more easily
Al Jazeera News • 12th May 2020 Coronavirus shutdown threatens Chicago's Rohingya cultural centre Coronavirus crisis forces the centre to cancel Ramadan fundraiser and puts the community it serves in dire straits.
Scientific American • 7th May 2020 'Breakthrough' COVID-19 Tests Are Currently Cheap, Fast—and Not Very Accurate Antigen-based assays could be used in the home, but critics say their error rates are still an issue
Scientific American • 27th March 2020 Ocean 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 2020 How 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 2020 Meet the Candidates: Kim Foxx The Weekly sits down with the Cook County State’s Attorney
Scientific American • 12th February 2020 Deadly 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 2020 What 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 2020 On background Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it.
Scientific American • 31st December 2019 Strange Superconductor Sends Electrons Both Ways A new material’s strange properties could be useful in future quantum computers
Scientific American • 17th December 2019 Ancient "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 2019 Now 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 2019 Gene Therapy Arrives After false starts, drugs that manipulate the code of life are finally changing lives.
Scientific American • 30th October 2019 Trump'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 2019 Trump 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 2019 Silent 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 2019 Spaceflight 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 2019 Testing 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 2019 Brazil'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 2019 Detained 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
