"Unfortunately, for decades, it was the norm for researchers from high-income nations and wealthy institutions to engage in parachute science practices and build successful academic careers because of ...
Recent research has shown that most scientific papers on coral biodiversity are led by people in high-income countries with few coral reefs. Reinhard Dirscherl / ullstein bild via Getty Images This ...
In 1783, French physicist Louis-Sébastien Lenormand jumped from the second story of a building in a public square, holding in each hand a large, 4-meter-wide umbrella made of a wooden frame covered ...
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...
The parachute for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world’s largest wind tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center. In this ...
Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines are home to the lion’s share of coral reefs, but most studies on these ecosystems are done by researchers based in the US, Australia, and the UK. This ...
The ocean's health is critical to the survival of every person on the planet, but as scientists struggle to better understand the sea and save it, many from less developed areas are excluded from the ...