Serena Williams is pregnant. In case anyone hadn’t heard the news, or had missed the breathless tale of how Williams won the Australian Open during the early weeks of her pregnancy, the fact is made plain on the August cover of Vanity Fair, which features the tennis champion in the buff.
One hand cups her breasts and the other is positioned in the small of her back. The body posture suggests confidence, but it also captures a hint of nonchalant impatience. Read More...
Leila Molana-Allen:
Forty percent of the West Bank, mostly in urban areas and refugee camps, is defined as under the authority of the Palestinian government. But the other 60 percent is disputed.
The international community says it's illegal for Israelis to build there. Israeli settlers and increasingly the Israeli government reject that. Displacement is not just a humanitarian issue, but a political one. Any hope of a two-state solution relies on land in the West Bank becoming a Palestinian state. Read More...
Anne Madden bends creatures to her will, with the deftness of a shepherd. But Madden is a microbe wrangler — her critters cover petri dishes. Rather than merely observe bacteria and fungi, Madden sees a community ready for work. If not for fungi, bacteria-fighting penicillin or heart-saving statins would not exist. If not for bacteria, the world would not have pickles. PICKLES!
“We have to find it. We have to bring it into the lab, and then we have to convince it to do something,” Madden told the NewsHour inside a lab at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where she works as an environmental microbiologist. Read More...