By Emily K. Gibson, PhD March 8, 2021
On November 12, 1969, six women linked arms as they walked down the ramp of a large, ski-equipped Navy transport plane in Antarctica. Lois Jones, Terry Lee Tickhill Terrell, Kay Lindsay, and Eileen McSaveney all researchers from Ohio State University were joined by Pam Young, a scientist from New Zealand, and Jean Pearson, a reporter for the Detroit Free Press
as they stepped onto the ice near the Earth’s southernmost point. With that final step, they became the first women to visit the South Pole.
After lunching with a group of researchers and Navy men working at the Amundsen-Scott research station, the women posed for a photo in front of the iconic, mirrored marker for the geographic South Pole before boarding a transport plane back to McMurdo Station, located on the Antarctic coast. Though they’d just made history, they were anxious to turn their attention to what had brought them to Antarctica in the first place resear
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Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams
NSF-supported researchers achieve two-way communication with lucidly dreaming people, creating a new method for studying the human mind that might lead to innovative ways of learning and problem-solving. By Jason Stoughton Eight minus six … two”
It’s not exactly “one small step for man,” but that humble mathematical message is extraordinary in its own way. The first part “eight minus six” was transmitted by a scientist to a place just as exotic as the moon yet frequented by each of us. The response “two” came from the mind of a sleeping research subject as he snoozed in a neuroscience laboratory outside Chicago.
By Chris Parsons February 16, 2021
Naiyiri-Blu Brooker grew up in a military family stationed in rural Germany, far from the sea. Nevertheless, she has been obsessed by marine life since childhood. “I would annoy my family by making them sit down in the living room while I gave them a presentation about any type of marine organism I could. I did that for a very long time. Sorry, Mom and Dad.”
After her family moved to New York, she enrolled in Lehman College to study biology. As an aspiring marine biologist, she was frustrated that, except for one class, the program was very biomedically oriented. Then she stumbled across a poster for the U.S. National Science Foundation s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at LUMCON, the Louisiana Universities Consortium for Marine Sciences. Naiyiri jumped at the chance. The NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites Program is designed to give undergraduate students the opportunity to gain valuable research experience t
February 7, 2021
Humans have always looked to the stars and studied them. Over the past century, science has revealed the fundamental role stars play for nearly everything in existence, including the elements on the Periodic Table.
The birth, life and death of every star creates and disseminates the elements of the Periodic Table throughout the universe, a cycle that began nearly 14 billion years ago and repeats continuously today.
Without it, the Earth and everything on it – air, water, soil, plants, wildlife, and human life – would not exist.
Birth of stars and the first elements
Within the first three minutes following the Big Bang, the fundamental building blocks of matter formed and merged into the first element–hydrogen. Within a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, clouds of hydrogen gas condensed into the first stars. In the cores of those stars, intense heat and pressure fused hydrogen atoms to form helium and lithium.