A team of scientists hailing from institutions across the United States and Japan has...
The Chehrābād salt mine is located near the village of Hamzelou in Northwestern Iran,...
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new injectable medication for treating obesity—one shown to help people lose a... Read More
When Gregg Gonsalves was a young AIDS activist and researcher, in the nineteen-nineties, he was struck by a pattern that kept showing up in... Read More
As I penned this editorial in mid-May, the internet was abuzz with news and images of people in some parts of the US East Coast panic-buying... Read More
If we assume that the Oort Cloud, that enveloping shroud of comets that surrounds our Solar System and extends to 100,000 AU or beyond, is a... Read More
Dr. Joe Mercola, an osteopathic physician who has made an impressive fortune selling supplements through his online store, has a new book out... Read More
In June 2012, Kirstie Ennis was six months into her second deployment to Afghanistan and recently promoted to sergeant. The helicopter gunner... Read More
What should we eat? That’s a question with implications for health, pleasure, ethics and politics. As political scientist Tripp... Read More
They meet once a month on Zoom: a dozen doctors from around the country with distinguished careers in different specialities. They vary in... Read More
David Olson is taking the high out of psychedelics. A chemical biologist at the University of California, Davis, Olson wants to tweak... Read More
Despite a sluggish start, China is now vaccinating its people against COVID-19 at an impressive clip, currently averaging nearly 20 million... Read More
Face mask skeptics are presenting a February 2020 email from Anthony Fauci, the federal government's leading COVID-19 adviser, as evidence... Read More
As individuals, we feel that we know what consciousness is because we experience it daily. It’s that intimate sense of personal... Read More
When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 to 80,000 years ago,... Read More
For reasons unknown, Earth’s solid-iron inner core is growing faster on one side than the other, and it has been ever since it started... Read More
The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking... Read More
MIT researchers have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity after being sewn... Read More
Telomeres are protective caps on DNA that shorten as we grow older. Now, one of the first studies to examine telomere length (TL) in... Read More
A groundbreaking clinical trial shows we can reduce biological age (as measured by the Horvath 2013 DNAmAge clock) by more than three years... Read More
Ageing is a gradual process that happens over our whole life, as our normal body functions slow down. There are at least nine markers of... Read More
When Aldous Huxley emerged from a mescaline trip that veered from an obsession with the folds in his trousers to wonder at the... Read More
A team of scientists hailing from institutions across the United States and Japan has...
The Chehrābād salt mine is located near the village of Hamzelou in Northwestern Iran,...
A team of researchers at the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics has found evidence that suggests Sagittarius A* is not a massive black hole but is instead a mass of dark matter. In their paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, the group describes the evidence they found and how it has stood up to testing.... Read More
Introduced in the 1990s, crops genetically engineered (GE) to withstand exposure to the weed killer glyphosate (Roundup) were a game-changer for agriculture. They saved many farmers money on weed control, slashed greenhouse gas emissions caused by tilling and fossil fuel use, and indirectly boosted crop yields, all of which translated into lower food prices for consumers.... Read More
