Inquiring Minds
Fall 2018
The northern pike is a twitchy fish—when startled it changes direction incredibly quickly.
Summer 2018
New research includes the motherhood penalty, evolution of sweat, food poisoning prevention.
Spring 2018
Plastics and reproductive health, pollen tubes and pistils, teaching math, and safer toothbrushing.
Summer 2017
Murugappan Muthukumar, one of the world’s top polymer physicists, has long been fascinated by vision and the physiology of the eye. Plus, more research breakthroughs.
Spring 2017
How a volcano caused the “year without a summer,” a rediscovered species, fake news, and more.
Fall 2016
The Great Smog in 1952 London, NASA turns to UMass Amherst, true love discovered, and the thinnest wires known to man.