Teaching And Learning At The Boundaries Of Two Cultures
The course 'Understanding the Universe: From Atoms to the Big Bang' is designed for non-science majors, focusing on exploring humanity's confrontation with the material world without math.
A Public Health Researcher and Her Engineer Husband Found How Diseases Can Spread through Air Decades before the COVID Pandemic
Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, William Firth Wells, challenged the prevailing belief that diseases like tuberculosis could not spread through the air, proving otherwise in 1930s.
The Scintillating Science of Twinkling Stars, Explained
Twinkling, or scintillation, is the apparent variation of brightness and color of stars, creating a lovely visual effect, but posing challenges for astronomers.