01 May, 2019

Union members, particularly those with less formal education, are significantly more politically knowledgeable than their non-union counterparts and better informed about where political parties and candidates stand on the issues.


Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives want to bring back Congress’s long-dead science advice office. A draft funding bill released today calls for providing $6 million to re-establish the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which Republican lawmakers killed in 1995.


A team of scientists in Japan have discovered a giant virus that, much like the mythical monster Medusa, can turn almost amoeba to a stone-like cyst


An enormous, linear corridor of exposed water ice was found on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches for some 4,000 miles - nearly half the moon’s surface. For comparison, the U.S spans less than 3,000 miles coast to coast. The strange feature likely formed in an ancient era of active ice volcanoes.


Researchers find that a new cookstove design, which makes use of compressed wood pellets, reduces air pollution by about 90% for a range of contaminants associated with health problems and climate change


A mysterious dementia that mimics Alzheimer’s gets named LATE


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A mysterious dementia that mimics Alzheimer’s gets named LATE