Societal breakdown, whether real or imagined, can lead to dramatic responses — like blood-sucking vampires.
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Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
What is more important, that a treatment helps keep people healthy or that it meshes with our morals?
Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
Marijuana use among college students in 2020 reached levels not seen since the 1980s.
Ernst Chladni proved that sound can be seen, and developed a technique of visualizing vibrations on a metal plate.
It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
France is split in two by its very own “desert,” the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.
Pandemic rumors and information overload make separating fact from fancy difficult, putting people’s health and lives at risk.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
A large new study puts caffeine-drinking moms on alert.
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
How the British obsession with tea triggered wars, led to bizarre espionage, and changed the world — many times.
A new drug derived from scorpion venom reversed developmental damage in mice exposed to alcohol during pregnancy.
A separate study shows that binge drinkers are also ordering more rounds.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
How much of this can be linked to genetics?
Attending religious service once a week found to lower risk of suicide and other “deaths of despair”
In late April, the news hit us hard: Lorna Breen, an emergency room doctor in a Manhattan hospital flooded with coronavirus patients, committed suicide. According to her father, the emotional […]
Washing your hands with soap and water can help protect against the coronavirus. But only if you do it correctly.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
Studies show that religion and spirituality are positively linked to good mental health. Our research aims to figure out how and why.
Thankfully, there are ways to combat mental and physical fatigue, even in isolation.
While many people don’t think its all that bad, a new study suggests you should lay off while expecting.
Many thousands of different genetic variants are responsible for complex behavior.
While most of these deaths are driven by external factors, interventions can still help prevent them.