SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, caught the world off-guard when it crossed into humans late last year. It even surprised many of the experts most likely to understand it best. To Siddappa Byrareddy, a virologist at the University of Nebraska and expert on viral epidemiology, the most surprising […]
A soldier tries to beat the heat. Image source: Daily Mail Although the U.S. military typically refrains from making public comment on politically sensitive topics, a report made public last August, published by the Army War College and written jointly by the Army, the Defense Intelligence Agency and NASA, makes […]
Election confusion: more powerful than cyberattacks. Source: Meritalk On November 5th, 2019, New York City residents will find ranked choice voting as Question 1 on their city election ballots. For many New Yorkers, this will come as a surprise. Despite signs posted in subways and at bus stops, the question […]
An Aedes albopictus female mosquito feeds on a human blood meal. Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Image source: Science News A mosquito may not attack you with the same ferocity of a bear, but the mosquito attack is far more likely to occur. Further drawing […]
We’ve heard it all so many times before: humans with an XY pair of sex chromosomes are male and those with an XX pair are female. Sexual Characters is a series of brief articles on how things are slightly more complicated. X is for girls, Y is for boys? For a significant […]
The double karyotype of mosaic Turner Syndrome. Credit: Wang, et al. We’ve heard it all so many times before: humans with an XY pair of sex chromosomes are male and those with an XX pair are female. Sexual Characters is a series of brief articles on how things are slightly more complicated. […]
Two X and one Y chromosome. Image: Shutterstock We’ve heard it all so many times before: humans with an XY pair of sex chromosomes are male and those with an XX pair are female. Sexual Characters is a series of brief articles on how things are slightly more complicated. X chromosome special! […]
Photo: Hanne Gaby Odiele, supermodel. Credit: Inez & Vinoodh We’ve heard it all so many times before: humans with an XY pair of sex chromosomes are male and those with an XX pair are female. Sexual Characters is a series of brief articles on how things are slightly more complicated. The making […]
The sex chromosomes. Image: Skepchick blogPost written by Forest Ray, with editorial input by Katharine Heller We’ve heard it all so many times before: humans with an XY pair of sex chromosomes are male and those with an XX pair are female. Sexual Characters is a series of brief articles […]
Two Araguaian botos swimming together. Photo credit: Gabriel Melo Alves dos Santos Seven years ago, Gabriel Melo Alves dos Santos happened upon a remarkable sight: a rare and highly reclusive Amazonian river dolphin, the Araguaian river dolphin, gathering in numbers at a marketplace along the Tocantins River in the Amazonian […]