Sara Weissman is a reporter at Inside Higher Ed. She writes about adult learners, low-income and first-generation students, students from underrepresented backgrounds and the colleges and universities ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new chemical tool that could help lower the cost of prescription medications. The tool, called AshPhos, is a ligand, or molecule, that makes it ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

January 29, 2025 • The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.

Additionally, he presents at conferences and in webinars, runs workshops, and appears in podcasts. Weissman has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Brooklyn College and holds 47 industry ...

How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

We’re closing out the year with a roundup of the science stories that stood out to our editors in 2024. There are so many species facing extinction—but today we’re telling stories about the ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing. How did ...

Presenters Andrew and Richard look back over their four-year odyssey to find the yeti.

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