Play buttonScience Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brainmassivesci.com - Hannah Thomasy For many people born in the 80s or 90s, Pokémon was a huge part of childhood. We knew the strengths and weaknesses of each of the 151 original …
U.S. Military Sailors ranked female crew and the sex acts they wanted to perform with them, Navy report saysThe Washington Post - By Deanna PaulSailors aboard a U.S. Navy submarine circulated sexually explicit lists that ranked female crew members, an investigation found. The lists, first reported Friday by Military.com, were uncovered through
Technology A little-known quantum mechanics theorem explains the nature of all realitySalon - George GreensteinExcerpted from Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell’s Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by George Greenstein. Foreword by David Kaiser. Copyright 2019, The MIT PRESS. It was many years ago
Anger Anger Leads To Health Problems Later in Life — Here's How To Deal With It NowWoman's World - Ashley Lall The connection between our mind and body isn’t a new concept. By now, we all know our emotions can have an impact on us physically. However, recent …
Arthritis What Is Inflammation?Verywell - By Carol Eustice Inflammation is the body's natural response to injury. A sequence of complicated, interrelated events work to defend the body, ultimately bringing …
Alzheimer's Disease There won’t be a cure for Alzheimer’s disease in our lifetimeSalon - Norman A. ParadisThis story originally appeared on Massive Science, an editorial partner site that publishes science stories by scientists. Subscribe to their newsletter to get even more science sent straight to you. recently
Ice Age Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impactphys.org On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated. Out of …
Coffee Why Does Coffee Make Us Poop? Scientists Gave Coffee to Rats to Find OutGizmodo - Ed Cara A good chunk of regular coffee drinkers know that coffee isn’t just great at getting them awake in the morning—it also makes them get up and go poop. …
Business Your economic opportunity is tied to location, more than ever beforeAxios America's economy is booming, with stocks setting new records and unemployment hitting its lowest monthly marks since 2000. But the spoils have not …
Technology Billion-Dollar Gamble: How A 'Singular Hero' Helped Start A New Field In PhysicsNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceImagine spending 40 years and more than a billion dollars on a gamble. That's what one U.S. government science agency did. It's now paying off big time, with new discoveries about black holes and exotic
Success 3 ways to get rid of anger, according to neuroscienceLadders - Eric Barker How can you control angry emotions? Looking at the neuroscience, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. Here’s how. They’re one inch from your …
Pain Hour-long 'life-changing' operation that brings paralysed limbs back to life could banish the pain of nerve damagedailymail.co.uk - Carol Davis A simple hour-long operation could be ‘life-changing’ for thousands of Britons left permanently disabled due to damaged nerves. The procedure can …
News Scientists start to unravel how the brain forgetsAxios - Alison Snyder We are desperate to fight forgetting — it scares us, it annoys us, and it can cost us. Yet there are also memories we want to forget. Why it matters: …
Carbon Dioxide Scientists are looking at these indicators to measure climate changeThe Washington Post - By Bonnie Berkowitz, Patterson Clark, Todd Lindeman, Denise Lu, Kevin Uhrmacher and Lazaro GamioScientists say the planet is hurtling toward a global-warming danger zone, and humans deserve much of the blame. But how exactly does burning coal or clearing forests lead to glaciers melting, seas rising
Health The Healthiest Weight Could Actually Be 'Overweight', Huge Study FindsScienceAlert - BEC CREW A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index (or BMI) …
Depression Exploring The Link Between Inflammation And Depression: Study Suggests Women Are Affected The MostForbes - David DiSalvoThe link between depression and the body’s inflammatory response continues getting stronger, with more research showing an ever-tighter correlation. Whether inflammation causes depression has been difficult
Aging How memory changes as we ageAxios - Alison Snyder About 11% of Americans over the age of 65 are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. For others, the changes in memory we …
Crystals Machines Built From Living MatterThe Wall Street Journal. - Susan HockfieldIn a convergence of biology and engineering, scientists are looking to the organic world to create new tools and materials. When materials engineer Angela Belcher submitted her first post-doctoral grant
Books 50 years on from the moon landings, why have we turned our backs on space?The Telegraph - By Simon IngsThis article has an estimated read time of nine minutes I have Arthur to thank for my earliest memory: being woken and carried into the living room on July 20 1969 to see Neil Armstrong set foot on the
Chronic Pain Chronic pain might be the cause of some premature brain agingconsiderable.com - Considerable Staff With age, achy joints and sore muscles in unexpected new places come with the territory. But there's a difference between the everyday discomforts of …
Play buttonTechnology Our coming DNA nightmare, as outlined by a dystopian graphic novelFast CompanyScience fiction often provides a valuable roadmap for thinking about the future. In the case of “Legend of Sumeria” the future has arrived. Back in 2011, the analyst Peter Sondergaard famously told the
Google Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, hereTNW - Bryan ClarkFor years Google has been keeping track of nearly every online purchase we’ve made. A CNBC report today reveals that, thanks to purchase receipts sent to personal Gmail accounts, the company has amassed
Atoms Lamprey molecules squirm into the brain to deliver cancer drugsnewatlas.com - Michael Irving With a mouth like a whirlpool full of teeth, the lamprey is not something you'd normally want anywhere near your brain. But now, researchers from the …
Autism New autism research on single neurons suggests signaling problems in brain circuitstheconversation.com - Dmitry Velmeshev Autism affects at least 2% of children in the United States – an estimated 1 in 59. This is challenging for both the patients and their parents or …
The Brain How Your Brain Responds When The Beat DropsForbes - Eva AmsenA lot of electronic dance music has a very characteristic feature: The music gradually builds, and then suddenly changes to a different rhythm, pitch or instrumentation. It feels like the tension of riding
Climate Change Climate Adaptation Isn’t Surrender. It’s SurvivalWIRED - Molly Wood Author’s note: On my show, Marketplace Tech, we’ve launched a series on the technology behind climate change adaptation. It’s called How We Survive. …
Latino News Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists SayThe New York Times - By ANATOLY KURMANAEVMARACAIBO, Venezuela — Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe. The fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba’s disastrous unraveling in the 1990s. The crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced them all.
Science Processed Foods Shown to Have “Surprising Effects” on the Body in New StudyInverse - By Emma Betuel "Studies such as ours are rare in nutrition science." The phrase “ultra-processed foods” is unappetizing enough on its own, but new research on the …
Carl Sagan One Man’s Unlikely Quest to Power the World With MagnetsThe Wall Street Journal. - Dan NeilDennis Danzik has invented a whirligig that calls for the suspension of disbelief and the laws of physics. If it works as advertised, it would rank with the harnessing of steam, electricity and the atom.
Vitamin B Vitamin B12 Deficiencies Can Lead to “Reversible Dementia.” Here’s HowHealth.com - Maggie O'Neill Vitamin B12 is crucial for your red blood cell count and brain health. A woman struggled with a vitamin B12 deficiency for five years before doctors …
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