Psychotherapy has never been more available and yet, with so many options, it can be hard to know where to start. Thankfully, researchers are getting to grips with what really works and why
Our understanding of how the brain and immune system interact has changed substantially over the past years and decades. Initially, the brain was thought to be immune privileged and isolated from the rest of the body.
Researchers sound alarm over damage caused by popular meteorite-hunting technique
The males of an invasive ant species are chimeras of two distinct genetic lineages
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
The virulent H5N1 strain now sweeping across the world is adapting to its mammalian hosts in northern North America.
Researchers are looking to drug combinations, vaccines and gene therapy as they forge the next generation of treatments for the condition.
Quantum theory, and the world of subatomic particles and forces it describes, has a daunting reputation for strangeness. And yet, with the right guidance, anyone can enjoy its many wonders
By consuming oxygen near to tumours, the battery makes a class of experimental drugs target oxygen-free cancerous cells more effectively
Archaeology Magazine (May/June 2023):
(BBC News reports that traces of a Roman street and timber buildings were uncovered in southwest England at the site of the cloister garden at Exeter Cathedral during an investigation ahead of the construction of a new cloister gallery.
An impressive selection of grave goods including roe deer antlers (top) that could have been worn as a headdress and boars’ teeth (middle) and tusks (above) with holes drilled in them enabling them to be suspended from an animal skin were found in a 9,000-year-old shaman’s burial.
Bad Dürrenberg is a modest spa town in eastern Germany, perched on a bluff overlooking the Saale River. On a Friday afternoon in 1934, workers were laying pipe to supply the spa’s fountain with water when they came across red-tinted earth.
(Photographs Juraj Lipták)
Sweeping new study based on archaeological evidence, chemical isotope analysis, and ancient DNA “totally changes the game”
Drug developers are now trying to target ceramides, which appear to contribute to a range of metabolic disorders
Material that includes carbon with the same structure as diamond could be used to protect satellites from space radiation.
People scrolling online news are 1% less likely to click on an article for each positive word in its title.
Researchers are excited about the AI — but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy.
The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn’t entirely clear, but it may be due to some aspects of modern life
Research suggesting that wrinkles could be a driver of ageing means we need to rethink the beauty industry – and who pays for it
James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer and naturalist, is known as the founder of modern geology. He was a great observer of the world around him. More importantly, he made carefully reasoned geological arguments. Hutton came to believe that the Earth was perpetually being formed; for example, molten material is forced up into mountains, eroded, and then eroded sediments are washed away.
He recognized that the history of the Earth could be determined by understanding how processes such as erosion and sedimentation work in the present day. His ideas and approach to studying the Earth established geology as a proper science.
Virology database cuts off—and then reinstates—scientists who found and analyzed data collected 3 years ago by team in China
“It would be in the range of serious crap happening.”
At a basic level, humanity’s survival odds come down to one thing: the chances of a giant space rock slamming into the planet and sending us the way of the dinosaurs. One way to calibrate that hazard is to look at the size of Earth’s recent large impact craters.
Boomers Daily 