New Horizons Newsroom 2024

Exercise may manage blood pressure through the gut microbiome A North Carolina A&T scientist is promoting exercise in marginalized communities to target cardiometabolic disease through the gut. Marc Cook, a gut and vascular exercise immun...

A translator for the universe Hitoshi Murayama is a physicist who thinks big. Really big. “This is a redshift cosmic microwave background radiation picture of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, or 380,000 ...

Science journalism’s role in a polarized post-election America Just days after the 2024 presidential election, Sunshine Hillygus, a political scientist at Duke University, addressed hundreds of science writers gathered for the Council for the ...

Experts share tips for covering clean technologies In an effort to combat climate change, governments have since 2020 drastically increased investments in clean technologies, or “cleantech,” a suite of climate solutions that in...

Hitoshi Murayama lights path forward for dark matter research From the solar systems in the Milky Way to the international collaborations down on Earth, Hitoshi Murayama believes that dark matter—and the quest to better understand it—hold...

What will a second Trump term mean for cleantech and climate mitigation markets? Nine years have passed since signatories to the Paris Agreement agreed to act to keep the global average air temperature from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-ind...

What can U.S. farmers teach scientists about reforesting the Peruvian Amazon? If you fly over the region of Madre de Dios in the Eastern Peruvian Amazon, you will notice an endless expanse of lush forest and winding rivers interrupted by an unexpected sight:...