BIOS 098 Human Genomes, Ancestry, and Health Spring 2024

Popular resources can do these things for you:

• provide general background information before you turn to the academic journal literature;
• help identify late breaking news about important scientific discoveries or developments;
• point you to academic studies by giving a popular account of a scientific research project, mention its principal researchers, and mention the academic journal in which the research was published.  

See the boxes below for databases that will help you find popular articles. 

Below is a list of various types of popular resources by category.

1. POPULAR ARTICLES DATABASES  

Tips:

• Check the help documentation (if available) for whatever resource you select for examples of how to search it. 
• Research Library and Academic Search Ultimate contain both popular and scholarly articles. Make sure to use the limiters/filters to restrict to which type you want.

2. PARTICULAR MAGAZINE OR NEWS TITLES

You can look these up by doing a journals search in ASA, Lehigh's online catalog on the library homepage, or on google (with VPN on if you are off-campus).

• BBC Science and Environment
• NYTimes Health News
• NYTimes Science News
• Science Daily
• Science News
• ScienceNOW (NOVA, contains both written material and videos)
• Scientific American News
• The Scientist
• Discover Magazine: "The newsmagazine of science".
• New Scientist.

3. RADIO AND PODCASTS  

• Genetics Unzipped (The Genetics Society)
• NPR Science
• Origin Stories (The Leakey Foundation)
• Radiolab (WNYC Studios)
• This Podcast Will Kill You

4. YOUTUBE,  TV NEWS SEGMENT   

Check Youtube or look for TV news segments.