With the James Webb Space Telescope’s recent launch, professional and amateur astronomers alike will soon have access to images of the first formations of stars and galaxies in our universe. But will the history of the telescope’s namesake cast a shadow over its potential discoveries?
View More The James Webb Space Telescope’s Cloud of Controversy
Meat and dairy production are two of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption worldwide. The environmental impacts of meat products have led to a push to find meat alternatives that still provide the same nutritional value. Part of the solution may lie in the integration of more insects into our diet.
View More A Bug’s Life: Insects as a Meat Alternative
Non-fungible tokens make their official debut on social media as Twitter profile pictures, opening up questions and concerns about handling proof of originality and respecting the goal of decentralization in the cryptocurrency industry.
View More NFTs Going Mainstream
As part of the Biden administration’s most recent initiatives to combat the rise of COVID-19 cases, four at-home test kits have been offered to each household in the U.S., but the conditions of this offer are yet another example of a consistent pattern of inequities during the pandemic.
View More The Inequitable Offer of 4 COVID Tests Per Household
In the most recent update to SpaceX and Amazon’s ongoing conflict over the proposed Starlink Satellite Internet plan, Amazon has requested further delays to SpaceX’s launch schedule in order to “allow for more thorough analysis.”
View More SpaceX and Amazon’s Starlink Spat
In current scientific research, there appears to be a replication crisis in which results of publications cannot be replicated. While this may not impact the validity of the research, it creates looming questions and uncertainties for the products of that research going forward, and innovation in the space as a whole.
View More The Replication Crisis: Issues in Scientific Research
With the discovery of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, much uncertainty has been injected into the conversation about booster vaccines — from questions about who should get them and when, to the matter of how using vaccine doses as boosters in the U.S. can prevent lower-income countries from receiving first dose supplies.
View More Omicron Variant Causes Public Health Officials to Rethink Vaccine Booster Recommendations
Europe’s energy crisis this winter has forced countries into an increased reliance on fossil fuels; is there a way to make sure everyone has their energy needs met without worsening carbon emissions?
View More Europe’s Emerging Energy Crisis
The damaging effects of climate change are not distributed equally among the world’s nations — those who pollute the least bear more of the burden, so are these countries owed reparations for their losses? If so, who should pay?
View More Climate Change Reparations: Who Should Carry the Cost?
Facebook’s rebrand as Meta signals the beginning of a new era for the tech giant, but is it all just a distraction from the company’s recent negative press?
View More Into the Metaverse: Facebook’s Big Rebrand