Not only will this help diagnose schizophrenia earlier, but it also points to a possible cause of schizophrenia.
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Ferrets are not humans, but this new drug is showing promise.
Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.
Beyond the oceans boiling and the death of our Sun, Earth’s ultimate fate won’t be determined until far in the distant future. It took the Universe 13.8 billion years to create […]
The history of the Geneva Conventions tells us how the international community draws the line on brutality.
A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.
It’s something most adults don’t understand very well. So what should you tell a child? If you’ve ever had a conversation with an inquisitive, curious child, you might have experienced that […]
Animal law is the fastest growing legal discipline.
“Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…”
The possibility of an easy, non-invasive detection method arises.
They’re made from stretchy, electroactive polymer films.
An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Will Storr has written a masterful guide to writing with “The Science of Storytelling.”
It’s not a question we know enough to know the answer to, but to dismiss the possibility is scientifically baseless. There’s one question that most of us ask at some […]
It’s 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how. How old is the Universe? For generations, people argued over whether the Universe had always existed, whether it […]
As the Universe ages, will it eventually fade away entirely? The earliest signal we’ve ever directly detected from the Universe comes to us from shortly after the Big Bang: when […]
The fine Facebook just paid was huge, but many in tech say it wasn’t nearly enough to protect your data.
An entire Universe of possibilities await stars like our own, even after they run out of fuel. One of the most profound rules in all the Universe is that nothing lasts […]
The FAA is not amused by flame-throwing drones.
Just when you thought the student loan crisis couldn’t get any worse.
The ‘giant impact’ that led to Earth might not have been so giant, after all. A little over 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System began to form. Somewhere in the […]
Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.
Michael Dowling, Northwell Health’s CEO, believes we’re entering the age of smart medicine.
The relentless sun makes life in the Sahara almost unbearable. But could it also be its greatest resource?
Ads from political figures are exempt from fact-checking, according to Facebook’s recently updated policies.
In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]
The author of “Auroville: The City Made of Dreams” talks about the difficulties of establishing (and writing about) utopian societies.
This mystery comes in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating. Here’s what we know so far. Imagine that you were looking out at the distant Universe, watching the stars, galaxies, and the […]
A NASA-led study suggests the stress of spaceflight seems to trigger various types of herpes to reactivate in astronauts.