Ross Pomeroy
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How much do citizens really value free elections?
Stem cells from a fetus can live within the mother for decades — and help her heal.
Claims of a sudden infestation appear unfounded.
Decades ago, a disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. Chernobyl? No. Banqiao dam in China.
To see a true cross-section of American society, head to Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, IHOP, Chili’s, and Olive Garden.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
"Precarious manhood" is the belief that manhood must be earned and constantly defended. It has a poor outcome.
Morning, afternoon, or night: When is the best time to exercise? Scientists have extensively studied this question. Here's what they found.
A new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism.
AI was key to making Moderna's COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
Capsaicin is already used to treat nerve pain. Early research hints it could do more.
We've heard this argument before.
A healthy lifestyle even protects those who are genetically predisposed to depression.
A combination of factors make the weather at New Hampshire's Mount Washington arguably the most brutal in the world.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
Long thought a pipe dream, scientists have discovered a drug that mimics the effects of exercise.
The flavor is "simultaneously fascinating and... abusive."
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
If not treated, the disorder drastically increases one's risk of death.
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country's total beef consumption.
In Georgia, it's becoming less common to pronounce words like "prize" as "prahz."
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
Scientific evidence does not support the use of trigger warnings, which are described as a "disingenuous gesture of trauma awareness."
McDermitt Caldera, the site of an ancient volcanic eruption, straddles the border of Oregon and Nevada.