Anxiety Is Good For New Parents
New parents are anxious about their babies because they need to be. Getty New parents are often overwhelmed by the flood of raw anxiety they feel about their baby. Then it gets worse, because mothers in particular start to feel guilty about being anxious. What new parents don’t realize is that they are anxious because…
8 Under 18: The Young Trailblazers Stepping Up During The Pandemic
When more than half of public school students across the country discovered they would be remaining at home for the rest of the school year, some mourned, some celebrated, and some got right to work on leading local COVID-19 relief efforts. There’s a laundry list of things you can’t do before 18—like buying a lottery…
How This African Soccer Team Is Helping More Women To Code
Kaizer Chiefs' players pose for a group picture prior to the Premier Soccer League (PSL) match ... [+] between Kaizer Chiefs and Bloemfontein Celtic at the Moses Mabhida Stadium, in Durban, on December 7, 2019. (Photo by Anesh DEBIKY / AFP) (Photo by ANESH DEBIKY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Mbali Hlongwane, founder…
Caster Semenya Can’t Defend Olympic Title Unless She Lowers Testosterone, Court...
TOPLINE Olympic gold medalist runner Caster Semenya must lower her testosterone levels if she wants to defend her 800 meter title in Tokyo next year, a Swiss court ruled Tuesday, bringing an end to Semenya’s long legal battle against her sport’s governing body that brought controversy and heated debate to the role hormones play in…
This Colombian Researcher Helps Reveal The True Cost Of Strokes
Garzon, who is a Research Fellow at the Department of Neurology at the International Hospital of ... [+] Colombia in Piedecuesta, Santander, in eastern Colombia Jennie Garzon Colombian doctor Jenny Garzon's day-to-day work involves (under the supervision of neurologists), treating patients , who have suffered from stroke, but she is also a medical researcher helping…
What Sparked This Colombian’s Passion? Poison Frogs At An Airport!
The poison frog studied by Colombian researcher Bibiana Rojas. Bibiana Rojas. Colombian researcher Bibiana Rojas says her life changed forever when she got to meet a poison frog in real life – now she studies a range of brightly colored frogs and moths and how they interact with predators. Rojas, who is from Bogota, Colombia…
This Guatemalan Hopes To Solve Deep Space X-Ray Mystery
Astrophysicist Kristhell Lopez in front of the Observatorio de La Silla, in La Serena, Chile. Kristhell Lopez Astrophysicist Kristhell Lopez, who studies mysterious signals that might be mid-sized black holes, is one of just two female astrophysicists from Guatemala, a country with a long history of astronomy before Spanish colonization. Lopez, originally from Guatemala City and…
Meet The Colombian Who Went From Athlete To Climate Scientist
Colombian climate scientist Juliana Arbelaez Gaviria Global Change Research Institute in the Czech ... [+] Republic JULIANA ARBELAEZ GAVIRIA At 18-years-old, Juliana Arbelaez was representing Colombia in competitive artistic swimming, but is now based in the Czech Republic using computer modeling to gauge the impacts of climate change. She also helps to advocate for women…
Birdies To Raptors: How This Colombian Went From Golf To Ornithology
Ana María Morales Cañizares works to preserve the Ornate Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus ornatus, among other ... [+] raptor species. getty Colombian conservationist Ana María Morales was on her way to a pro-golf career, but found her true passion: birds of prey –also known as raptors– which she now helps to conserve on Colombia's pacific coast. Morales,…
This Costa Rican Scientist Investigates African Lake Fish Mysteries
Jimena Golcher-Benavides and Chris Horsfall, a sponsor from Tanganyika's Lake Shore lodge, ... [+] delineating the diving transect to monitor cichlid fish populations. Jimena Golcher-Benavides Costa Rican scientist Jimena Golcher-Benavides goes scuba-diving in the the world’s deepest tropical freshwater lake to study Cichlidae, simply known as cichlids, an important fish species for small-scale fisheries, aquaculture…
