Everyday Science

A radioactive science project from Science Buddies

This week I’m going to cover some of the high profile hacks that have happened recently, including Lastpass, Kaspersky and the White House’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM). My hope is that by learning more, you can avoid being hacked, stay more secure and know what to do if you have been hacked

Spilling my guts and examining my recent anxieties.

A study found that the stronger a subject's memory of a particular food, the more likely they were to choose it again, even over foods they professed to enjoy more

Inaction on climate 'could see rise of 6 degrees Celsius' 

Volunteers taking an "implicit bias" test who were unlikely to associate images of women with leadership titles like executive or president were far less likely to vote for a woman in a race against a man of equal qualification

Twenty minutes into a meal, E. coli pump out appetite-suppressing proteins, which could influence our feeling of hunger. Christopher Intagliata reports

First, cucumbers terrorized your pet cats. Now they are wreaking havoc in the lab.

Parody

An “eary” project from Science Buddies

Fruits growing wild in urban areas were found to be healthful and to contain lower levels of lead than what's considered safe in drinking water

Less polluting energy sources are proliferating in the U.S. If other nations join in, the results could have global impact

Learn about the physics of flight with this soaring science activity