Rachel E. Gross
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Boston, MA, United States
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No One Is Ready for All the Ways the Fall of Roe Could Screw Up Health Care
Even procedures that have nothing to do with pregnancy. → Read More
How a Deadly Flesh-Eating Fungus Helped Make Bats Cute Again
A silver lining to the worldwide epidemic of white nose syndrome: People like bats more now → Read More
The Best Books About Science of 2016
Take a journey to the edge of human knowledge and beyond with one of these mind-boggling page-turners → Read More
How Earthquakes and Volcanoes Reveal the Beating Heart of the Planet
The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program has stitched together a visual archive of the world’s earthquakes and volcanoes → Read More
The Moral Cost of Cats
A bird-loving scientist calls for an end to outdoor cats "once and for all" → Read More
The Moral Cost of Cats
A bird-loving scientist calls for an end to outdoor cats → Read More
One Lone Weasel Grinds the World’s Most Powerful Particle Collider to a Halt
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland is humanity's most powerful scientific instrument. It cost $7 billion to build, comprises a 17-mile tr ... → Read More
Psychologists Call Out the Study That Called Out the Field of Psychology
Remember that study that found that most psychology studies were wrong? Yeah, that study was wrong. That’s the conclusion of four researchers who recen ... → Read More
Why Do People Get More Cosmetic Procedures During the Holiday Season?
The holidays: a time to relax around a fire, drink mulled wine, and submit yourself to painful surgical procedures involving fat-melting probes and dozens → Read More
Why Does Alibaba, China’s Answer to Amazon, Want to Own a Newspaper?
The South China Morning Post is Hong Kong’s biggest and perhaps most influential English-language newspaper. Because it doesn't face the censorship control → Read More
Chipotle Is So, So Sorry for Sickening All Those Students
After two major outbreaks of foodborne illness, Chipotle has apologized to customers and promised to put aggressive new safety measures in place. So far, t → Read More
Connecticut Plans to Be First State to Bar People on No-Fly List From Buying Guns
Connecticut will become the first state in the country to bar people on the federal no-fly list from purchasing firearms, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced o → Read More
School That Is Tolerant of Anti-Vaxxers Suffers Massive Chickenpox Outbreak
Tolerance of racial and cultural diversity is good. Tolerance of those who endanger the community by refusing to vaccinate their kids is not. An Australian → Read More
To Edit the Human Genome Now Would Be "Irresponsible"
At fertilization, you are dealt a genetic hand of cards. Your genome largely dictates whether you will be short or tall, able to taste certain chemicals, o → Read More
Women Can Now Serve in All Military Combat Roles
Women will be allowed to serve in all combat jobs in America’s armed forces starting next year, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced Thursday mor → Read More
Are Any Vegetarian Bacon Substitutes Good Enough to Satisfy Bacon Lovers? A Taste Test
Just about everyone likes bacon, and no one likes cancer. So when the World Health Organization announced in October that bacon causes cancer, America’s kn → Read More
NIH Announces the End of Its Controversial Era of Chimpanzee Research
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, sharing about 99 percent of our DNA. To many, that makes these animals especially worthy of protecting. It al → Read More
Study: Turns Out Your Kids Are Not Receptacles for Your Political Beliefs
When it comes to politics, conventional wisdom says that kids tend to mimic their parents. The research would seem to reinforce this widespread view: A 200 → Read More
Evolution Is Finally Winning Out Over Creationism, Especially Among the Young
Few issues have divided the American public as bitterly as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Since On the Origin of Species was pu → Read More
There Is a Thing About Cats and Cucumbers on the Internet. Here’s What That’s About.
What is going on? Sometime within the last few months, the Internet discovered the fact that cats fear cucumbers. When you put a cucumber behind a cat whil → Read More