After a bump, we can expect a bruise. But what if we find ourselves bruising without any noticeable cause? What might be behind it? Should we worry?Around 18 percent of adults report...
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Avian flu has reached the Antarctic, raising concerns for isolated populations of penguins and seals that have never...
For those with stubbornly resistant forms of severe depression, ketamine was looking more and more like a solution. Years of research has hinted at the dissociative anesthetic's treatment potential where other medications...
Clinical depression is considered one of the most treatable mood disorders, but neither the condition nor the drugs used against it are fully understood. First-line SSRI treatments (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) likely...
Sliding care-free through the complete emptiness of space, light covers a constant 299,792,458 meters every second. No more, no less.This all changes when that wave of electromagnetism is forced to negotiate the...
A second study, published the same day in Science, shone more light on the mysterious bursts and their variety. This group of researchers, mostly at Australian institutions, spotted the farthest and brightest...
Sometimes, years of painstaking excavation work are required to uncover the artifacts of the past – and sometimes, as with a recent earthquake in Mexico City, much of the hard digging work...
Known formally as glacial lake outburst floods—or GLOFs—these deluges are driven by rising mountain temperatures. Where glaciers terminate, they deposit rocky debris that has been carried in their ice, forming what is...
