Cancer will not be vanquished in one fell swoop. No singular breakthrough will blare...
About four decades ago, reindeer in the high alpine Nordfjella region of Norway began to...
Most people believe that fostering self-esteem in children will have many benefits, from happiness to better school performance, but that... Read More
President Biden has announced a “full-scale wartime effort” to vaccinate the American people against the coronavirus. This is... Read More
What lies beyond all we can see? The question may seem unanswerable. Nevertheless, some cosmologists have a response: Our universe is a... Read More
Two competing nuclear fusion companies, each with venture capital superstars as major investors, say we’re approaching the “Kitty... Read More
Despite its relative proximity to the Pacific Ocean, South America’s Atacama Desert is so arid that scientists use it to simulate... Read More
A group of scientists have worked as a veritable atmospheric detective agency and dug into a new mystery of more ozone-damaging substances.... Read More
Scientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade. Tree... Read More
About a decade ago, when he was a first-year dermatology resident, Adewole Adamson learned that “exploding” rates of melanoma... Read More
Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s room. At first, I took... Read More
The dream of flying all the way into space began when the first aircraft flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. Less than 70 years... Read More
Last week, SBM’s fearless founder Steve Novella wrote what I considered to be an important post about the danger of conspiratorial... Read More
Sauna bathing is generally safe for healthy individuals and good for cardiac health, as well as a breath of warm air in the frigid winter.... Read More
Although speech and language are unique to humans, experts have found that the brain’s pathway is similarly wired in monkeys which... Read More
As the planet’s burden of rubber and plastic rises unabated, scientists look to the promise of closed-loop recycling to reduce trash.... Read More
The first people to settle in the Americas likely brought their own canine companions with them, according to new research which sheds more... Read More
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have developed a ceramic-based ink that may allow surgeons in the future to 3D-print bone parts complete with... Read More
Targeted neuromodulation tailored to individual patients’ distinctive symptoms is an increasingly common way of correcting misfiring... Read More
A new Northwestern University study reaffirms the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. By examining fruit flies’ brain... Read More
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, Germany, have developed a way of combining a bone... Read More
Researchers have successfully transplanted retinal cells into monkeys’ eyes, giving hope for this method as a treatment for... Read More
Cancer will not be vanquished in one fell swoop. No singular breakthrough will blare...
About four decades ago, reindeer in the high alpine Nordfjella region of Norway began to...
After axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust candidate for explaining dark matter. All this time, though, the ultra-small particles have remained hypothetical. Now, a team of astrophysicists have proposed that axions may be responsible for an excess of X-ray emissions seen coming from a group of neutron stars in our galaxy.... Read More
We learn two things from COVID-19. First, our entire world is interconnected: a catastrophe in any region can cascade globally. Second, international science can be our salvation – as in the development of vaccines. Let’s hope that, when this crisis is passed, we can focus on the longer-term challenges the world faces: providing food, energy and healthcare for a rising population, with... Read More
