Harmful chemicals are part of our daily lives. They exist in anything from pesticides on our food to the plastic of our water bottles. But do we really know the full extent of how these chemicals affect our health over our lifetimes? Unbeknown to most of us, there is a class of emerging contaminants that
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You wake up at three in the morning feeling sick and you don’t know what’s wrong. Today, you’d have to go to a doctor to get a reliable diagnosis—but one day, you might be able to solve such problems without dragging your ill body out of the house. Enter the Tricorder, a portable device inspired
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There’s nothing like the wilderness to make a city born-and-bred scientist question his own rationality. This summer, while backpacking in the Sierras with my wife, I felt a pang of panic while filtering yet another liter of cold water from a nearby stream: my small, slow, screw-on water filter was leaking slightly, sending the occasional
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Our hot off the presses magazine article, “This is your mind on grad school,” has clearly struck a nerve. In just five days it has had over 27,500 views and is the most viewed article in the history of the BSR website. We are hoping that the popularity of this article will inspire open discussion about
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