Mara Grunbaum

Mara Grunbaum is a science and environmental reporter whose work has appeared in Discover, Popular Science and OnEarth magazines, among others. One time she fact-checked a planet to death. Her writing and other projects are collected at www.maragrunbaum.com.

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Despite nearly two decades of marketing campaigns insisting bees are in decline and science is to blame, the data show otherwise. Bees are not entirely irrelevant in the food supply, and do valuable…

Discovered: WD 1586 B, A Planet That Survived The Death Of Its Star

(Inside Science) -- For the first time, an intact world may have been discovered around a white dwarf, suggesting that even after typical stars die, they may still host planets, a new study finds.

The COVID Impact on Colorectal Cancer Screening

The current pandemic has changed the way we live our lives. Every aspect of human interaction has been affected. Our daily lives have undergone dramatic adjustments that may have been hard to imagine…

Noble Uncertainty: Next Gen Gaming Customizing Psychological Experiences Using Newtonian Laws

Right now, we can play video games and feel like we are 'in the game' but it's still a lot of suspension of disbelief. If you can only see 40 degrees while driving a car in a game that's nowhere…