Catie Brown

In the past 20 years, the idea of supplementing one’s healthy diet and lifestyle with vitamins and nutrients has risen to prominence. Take a stroll through any grocery store and you will be confronted with rows of bottles sporting the…Read More

Practically everyone has heard of lung cancer and is familiar to its connection to smoking. While most people know that smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, responsible for 80% of all cases, there are environmental factors and genetics…Read More

It’s not news that dogs save lives. 80 million Americans have the companionship of service dogs. The simple act of petting a dog can lower our blood pressure in times of stress and anxiety. Heroic pets have saved people from…Read More

Last year, history was being made while answering questions we didn’t think to ask. We’re used to Google having all the answers, but it’s easier to forget just how difficult some of these questions are. For instance, this question took…Read More

Header Image: UAF/Martin Truffer via NASA; Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers in April 2019 A joint space-Earth mission to x-ray the planet’s poles over a decade. A team of scientists and pilots from multiple countries living in the extreme cold of the…Read More

COVID-19 continues to spread across the US, with Brazil and India following in the highest number of cases of the virus. From getting married over Zoom to walking dogs with a drone, the pandemic has already shattered many assumptions we…Read More

Happy July 1st, my friends! Yes, it’s already July if you can believe it. With the seventh month of the year comes picnics, water lilies, Independence Day in the US, and some of the warmest temperatures of the year. But…Read More

There are many issues to watch in 2020 and some that have been developing for decades are about to make big changes. One of those to follow up on is the constant fight between the protection of land and present…Read More

It’s getting closer and closer to the height of summer in the US, with flowers blooming in gardens and trees flaunting leaves in every shade of green. But some trees dotting the sidewalks of Chelsea, Massachusetts (and across the US)…Read More

Starting in 2017, a team of scientists and researchers embarked on the Growing Islands project. This project has continued in the following three years to identify and test a potential way to mitigate the effects of sea level rise on island and…Read More