It’s just the current cycle that involves opiates, but methamphetamine, cocaine, and others have caused the trajectory of overdoses to head the same direction
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How a mother-daughter obsession became a massive and dangerous industry. The weird history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
LIGO’s enormous arms contract and expand as gravitational waves pass through them. But, puzzlingly, so does the light within them. For the past three years, humanity has known a new kind […]
Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.
Recent books that are sure to add to your intelligence.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world’s largest glacier from melting.
The world’s getting hotter, and it’s getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.
You can learn good design through these books. Most of which is avoiding bad design.
There’s still a lot even doctors don’t know about it.
Both schizophrenics and people with a common personality type share similar brain patterns.
It’s a development that could one day lead to much better treatments for osteoporosis, joint damage, and bone fractures.
Gut bacteria play an important role in how you feel and think and how well your body fights off disease. New research shows that exercise can give your gut bacteria a boost.
Through computationally intensive computer simulations, researchers have discovered that “nuclear pasta,” found in the crusts of neutron stars, is the strongest material in the universe.
A very clever idea says there’s a ninth Solar System planet, larger than Earth, far beyond Neptune. Here’s why most scientists think it’s not real. It’s been nearly three years since […]
A groundbreaking new study shows that octopuses seemed to exhibit uncharacteristically social behavior when given MDMA, the psychedelic drug commonly known as ecstasy.
It’s much more than an art form.
Despite its prominence in our collective imagination, variations in metabolism play a minor role in obesity.
It turns out the human scalp has an olfactory receptor that seems to play a crucial role in regulating hair follicle growth and death.
It happens every few years. Not just in Greece, but also parts of the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court justices receive lifetime appointments to the bench, but many wonder if indefinite terms do more harm to our legal system than good.
Diners consumed 45 fewer calories per meal.
We’re more dependent on them than we realize.
There’s a high social cost that comes with lighting up.
While short-term results are positive, there is mounting evidence against staying in ketosis for too long.
To be successful in business communication, you need to be able to leverage certain types of business communication skills effectively. Some of these abilities include strong written and verbal communication, […]
The nightmare scenario of no new particles or interactions at the LHC is coming true. And it might be our own fault. Over at the Large Hadron Collider, protons simultaneously circle […]
It deploys nets to capture useless space junk.
Traveling to Mars is going to be hard. Not going completely bonkers when we’re there may be even harder.
Overspeciliazation may be hampering progress in the context of higher education and scientific research.