Abigail Bromberger

2 weeks ago | blogs.nicholas.duke.edu | Abigail Bromberger

By Abigail Bromberger | US Environmental Policy Student2/21/25Natural disasters have become more common, more dangerous, and more deadly, while new infrastructure to deal with these disasters has been unable to keep up; meanwhile, policy is struggling to provide adequate solutions to problems created by climate change.

3 weeks ago | dukechronicle.com | Abigail Bromberger

Perhaps it is fitting that the first words I am writing for The Chronicle are also my last. Over the past four years, I have spent hours in The Chronicle office, arriving as early as 5:00 a.m. and leaving as late as 3:00 a.m. I have trekked up the never-ending staircase even when I thought my legs were going to fall out from under me, missed parties for last-minute Chronicle assignments and collected countless press credentials in my backpack.

Jan 14, 2025 | pnas.org | Carter Smith |Elizabeth A. DeMattia |Elizabeth L Albright |Abigail Bromberger

ContentsAGRICULTURAL SCIENCESEARTH, ATMOSPHERIC, AND PLANETARY SCIENCESEARTH, ATMOSPHERIC, AND PLANETARY SCIENCESEARTH, ATMOSPHERIC, AND PLANETARY SCIENCESEARTH, ATMOSPHERIC, AND PLANETARY SCIENCESENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESPHYSIOLOGYEARTH, ATMOSPHERIC, AND PLANETARY SCIENCESECOLOGYA simple technique ties polymers in knotsAGRICULTURAL SCIENCESHarlequin ladybird feeding on the eggs of a seven-spotted ladybird.

Jan 8, 2025 | pnas.org | Carter Smith |Elizabeth A. DeMattia |Elizabeth L Albright |Abigail Bromberger

Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone. As that cheese heads to market, producers must contend with what’s left behind: roughly 6 billion pounds of whey by dry weight, says Declan Roche, chief commercial officer of Foremost Farms USA, a Wisconsin-based dairy cooperative. Making cheese entails separating out the curd, as seen here, and leaving behind a lot of whey.

Jan 7, 2025 | pnas.org | Carter Smith |Elizabeth A. DeMattia |Elizabeth A. Albright |Abigail Bromberger

Individualized temporal patterns drive human sleep spindle timingEdited by Emmanuel Mignot, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA; received March 15, 2024; accepted November 15, 2024SignificanceSleep spindles are cortical electrical waveforms observed during sleep, considered critical for memory consolidation and sleep stability. Abnormalities in sleep spindles have been found in neuropsychiatric disorders and aging and are believed to contribute to functional deficits.