The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
“Downward counterfactual thinking” — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that “remembers” information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
The findings contradict a widespread belief.
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
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The dating pool is small — no pun intended.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The history of money is a history of convenience, and spending has never been easier than it is today.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
There’s the textbook answer, then there’s the real answer.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
You don’t have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
At 1,600 light years away, the black hole is practically in our cosmic backyard.