Kevin Wheeler
Reporter, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences
@kdub_333Kevin Wheeler, based in Peekskill, NY, covers Life Sciences and Physical Sciences for The Academic Times. Prior to that, Kevin wrote for Audubon Magazine, USA Today and KUT Public Media in Austin, Texas. He won the William J. Rowley Award for journalistic writing at the University at Albany. He graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2018.
A drug given to pregnant women in the mid-20th century may be partly to blame for rising cancer rates in younger adults, a new preliminary study suggests. And the same drug, administered later in pregnancy, is currently the only one available in the U.S. to prevent preterm births in women who previously experienced one.
Difficult to remove and highly carcinogenic, arsenic is one of the most common water contaminants around the world, with millions of people drinking it every day. But that number may start to drop as newer, cheaper purification technology emerges — and U.S. researchers have invented one method that could make an impact in developing countries, especially.