Chu hopes to use the position to encourage scientists to better communicate about scientific findings to “help the public appreciate how science works and help them understand the really, really exciting discoveries.”
Materials in our homes like vinyl flooring and activities as common as cooking dinner can pollute indoor and outside air with detrimental health impacts.
While scientists have been exploring bacteria for a century, and they are only in the beginning stages of exploring viruses’ types and capabilities, including how they might be used to help humans fight climate change, or even diseases.
The Higgs boson, the once-elusive particle that provides mass to the building blocks of the universe, is the most famous product of the CERN international laboratory, but the lab’s bragging rights extend to a host of innovations.
The U.S. Census Bureau has adopted a new math-based method to protect privacy of personal information collected during the upcoming census after internal tests showed a worrisome vulnerability in its privacy protections for the previous census.
