Three decades ago, a partnership in Los Angeles helped wage a war against drugs and a fight for youth wellness with its D.A.R.E. campaign, which still exists today—thousands of black t-shirts and slogans later. Times have changed considerably since then, and Americans from youth to senior citizens...
You’ve probably worn polyester clothes, and you’ve certainly used plenty of plastic objects and paint. But did you know that they come from natural gas? The main component of natural gas, methane, has just one carbon atom and is the smallest fossil fuel. But as the ultimate source material...
"Health is a human right," says Anh Tran ('09). She aims to launch her own startup to create diagnostic tools for neglected diseases such as tuberculosis.
When his graduate student Adam Steiner walked in and announced, "My rats are expressing regret," neuroscience professor David Redish responded along the lines of, "You've got to be kidding." Redish uses rats to probe fundamental mechanisms of decision-making, and sees no reason other animals’...
We know highly creative people and those with schizophrenia share many genes. U student Rachel Grazioplene is using what we know about apophenia—the ability to connect unrelated details—to find how traits in the brains of healthy people protect them from developing mental illness.
Popping the myths of prescription pills
Chemists turn key to new energy future
Capturing health for all
Rat regret informs decision research
How chaos may be organized
