New research found that teens’ brains “aged” during the COVID-19 lockdowns due to the loss of social interaction. Girls were the most impacted. COVID-19 as a virus has wreaked havoc ...
In 2022, President Joe Biden established the US Advanced Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H for short. This initiative aims to generate transformative innovations in health research and medicine through ...
In a surprising story that unveils the hidden dramas of the sea, scientists have documented the first-ever case of a 7-foot porbeagle shark being eaten by an even bigger predator—likely ...
Cornell University researchers gave a mushroom a little mech suit to control with its natural electrical signals. You probably won’t be seeing menacing roving gangs of Mecha Portobellos anytime soon, ...
There’s a type of termite in French Guiana that has evolved to essentially be a living dirty bomb. It’s filled with a toxic substance, and it can blow itself up ...
According to a recent study, action-oriented video games could help kids at risk for developmental dyslexia by enhancing their phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear and manipulate the ...
New research has found that living in a tree-filled neighborhood might have health benefits for your heart similar to regular exercise. The Green Heart Louisville Project’s HEAL Study found that ...
Researchers from the University of Arizona have found that the effects of mindfulness meditation—a subset of meditation practices in which one is focused on being in the moment—can be greatly ...
Hey, so, you know those two NASA astronauts who have been stranded in space for about two months now? They’re still there. Just chilling. Hopefully not having severe space madness-induced ...
Humpback whales can use tools! Not, like, cordless drills and belt sanders, but tools of their own creation that are made of air bubbles that they use to trap their ...