Tag: scientist
'Grief into action.' Philanthropists give historic $150 million donation to City of Hope for pancreatic cancer research
For entrepreneur and philanthropist Emmet Stephenson Jr., seeing his wife and friends die from pancreatic cancer served as a wake-up call.His...
A huge deposit of marine fossils found under San Pedro High School
Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing Palos Verdes...
Scientists become a source of hope and information on TikTok, Instagram
Peter Neff understands the allure of the world’s fifth-largest continent.The camera roll on...
The spinning of Earth's inner core is slowing down. Is this how it all ends?
Geophysicist John Vidale noticed something striking while tracking the way seismic waves move from Earth’s crust through its core. The very...
Murder, birth and test scores: What scientists are learning about extreme heat
Heat waves have been linked to a higher risk of babies being born premature, as well as stillbirth. In California, researchers found...
A tiny fern with a big secret just got into the Guinness Book of World Records
Tmesipteris oblanceolata is an obscure species of fork fern found in New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific. Just 4...