Rocking Our World

The Universe Within

For every missing link scientists find, they joke that two more pop up to takes its place. Yet thanks to fossils found at the far ends of the Earth—as well as the stars in our solar system—we know more about humanity’s origins than ever before. University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin is one of the people who has made important discoveries about where we come from. Shubin visits Zócalo to explain how he and other scientists can read our history from the ground beneath our feet and the skies up …

January 14, 2013

There’s More To Space Than Freeze-Dried Ice Cream

NASA’s Programs Have Helped Us Understand the Universe—Not To Mention Given Us the Jet Ski

by Sarah Rothbard | November 14, 2012

It’s an exciting time to be studying, thinking, and dreaming about space, with the NASA Curiosity rover’s exploration of Mars and the rise of private companies like SpaceX. But as …

On the Importance of Arizona, the Arts, and Molecules

October 31, 2012

State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream by Jeff Biggers

The nutshell: Author and Arizona native Biggers chronicles the last few years in Arizona …

Can L.A. Stop Being a Slacker In Biomedicine?

The Ingredients For Supremacy Are All Here. We Just Need To Step Up Our Game-Slightly.

by Richard Hull | September 3, 2012

If you haven’t already forgotten the London Olympics, and any competitors from those games come to mind, you probably think of the big winners, like Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. …

Zany, Brainy, and Sometimes Abstain-y

Mayim Bialik on Acting, Neuroscience, and Avoiding Meat

July 9, 2012

Mayim Bialik is at the very least a triple threat. She’s an actress who stars on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler (she is also known …

Why Jaguars and Jews Have Breast Cancer

If Human Doctors Would Take Off Their Blinkers and Learn Animal Medicine, We Might Be as Healthy as Horses

June 19, 2012

“What do you call a veterinarian who can only take care of one species?”

An M.D.

It’s a longstanding joke that veterinarians make about doctors, said UCLA cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, at an …

Meet the ‘Mediators’ Who Connect Scientists and the Public

Fossil Preparators Are a Panacea to a Closed-Off Field—And Their Work Offers a New Model for Research

The Genteel California Socialite Who Became the World’s Leading Female Arctic Explorer

In the Early 20th Century, Louise Arner Boyd Lived a Double Life—A Philanthropist in the States, and a Hero on the High Seas

Human Life Was Partly Inevitable

What Fossils On Earth and the Rest of Universe Have To Say About One Another

Hiking Wisconsin With ‘Ghosts’ of the Ice Age

A Scenic Trail Takes Me To Centuries Past, and Forward Into a Climate-Changed Future

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