Kenyan distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the fabled 2-hour marathon barrier in Vienna on Sunday, confirming a CU Boulder analysis of the course and conditions.
Why do we get such a kick out of jumping out of our skin? In this episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we talk to horror writer Stephen Graham Jones. Plus, we find out how the Halloween business works with Greg Reinke, a costume shop owner.
Facial analysis software is becoming increasingly prevalent for marketing and security, but new research shows it gets the gender of trans men wrong nearly 40% of the time and misgenders nonbinary individuals 100% of the time.
Over the span of a week, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill more people than died during all six years of World War II, according to new research.
Students in stricter middle schools are more likely to end up in jail or prison later in life, according to a new working paper from the Leeds School of Business.
How do you define racism? How can new research help descendants of slaves better understand their family origins? We ask these questions and more on this episode of the Brainwaves podcast.
Women take cover or prepare to evacuate more quickly but often have trouble convincing the men in their lives to do so, according to a study on how gender influences response to disaster. It also found traditional gender roles and power dynamics resurface, and female voices often go unheard.
Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), an enzyme associated with nearly all malignant human cancers, is even more diverse and unconventional than previously realized.
In this week's episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we explore questions around mass shootings and also look at a new tool aimed at stopping a different kind of epidemic—firearm suicides.
