Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor at NPR and US News & World Report, and a contributor to National Geographic and Scientific American.
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. I’ve been a vegetarian for over a decade. It’s not because of my health, or because I dislike the
New scientific findings come out every day. Often, people only learn about the researchers behind some of these discoveries years or decades later when they win a Nobel Prize. We think you should
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You are participating in a holiday gift exchange with a few classmates. You each write down your own name on a slip of paper and fold it up. Then all the students place
This time of year, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is a nearly inescapable earworm. Rudolph, the old song goes, is bullied for having a nose so bright it glows (like a lightbulb!). But one
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SAN DIEGO — A diet low in the amino acid glutamate may ease migraines, a small study suggests. A month of staying away from high-glutamate foods led to fewer migraines in a group
