Cancer is scary. We all know someone who has battled cancer—roughly half of us will receive a cancer diagnosis in our lifetime. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, killing a half million people of all ages nationwide each year.
By Paul Caine Producer, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
Originally published at: https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/02/24/cancer-experts-talk-transformation-treatment-and-care
With President Jimmy Carter’s seemingly miraculous recovery from a metastatic melanoma that had spread to his brain after treatment with a newly approved drug, it’s tempting to hope that medical science is finally winning the battle against this so-called “emperor of all maladies.”
So what is the state of current medical research and treatment for the many varieties of cancer that plague us?
Continue reading “Cancer Experts Talk Transformation in Treatment and Care”
Everything we see today, our precious atoms and molecules, got here by traveling on swaths of dark matter. From the oscillations of the hot plasma of the primordial universe, to the formation and dynamics of modern galaxies, dark matter plays a necessary role. The very construct in which we sit is defined by its abundance. Our universe’s evolution is controlled tightly by a cosmic tug-of-war between dark matter and dark energy. Continue reading “C2ST Speakeasy: “Dark Matter — The Dark Path to our Being” with Dr. Ritoban Basu Thakur”
Let’s go explore ChicGO Science! In this third installment of our series, we join Lagunitas head brewer Mary Bauer.
By Janet McMillan, C2ST volunteer and graduate student in chemistry at Northwestern University
Ten years to the night that the New Horizon Mission to Pluto was launched, William S. Higgins, an ambassador for NASA’s Solar System Ambassador Program, shared the wonders of the ground breaking discoveries and mysteries that remain to be uncovered about the dwarf planet and its surrounding objects.
The Rupununi region of Guyana is a mix of lowland savannas and tropical forests. The vast savannas include an expansive network of wetlands that connect the Guyana’s main river drainage, Essequibo River, to the Amazon River during the rainy season. This unique biogeographic feature influences fish communities of the area. One of the fish species found here is in dire need of protection. Continue reading “C2ST Speakeasy: “Saving Giants of the Amazon” with Dr. Lesley de Souza”