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Findings could help explain why children who suffer trauma often face poor health later in life. Children who suffer trauma from abuse or violence early…
A scientist places a water sample onto a custom-made platform before a test. Each water sample contains microorganisms such as the parasite Giardia and adenoviruses,…
July 26, 2020. (Click image for full view.) Each summer, parts of the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas lose their ice cover and bathe in…
Most of Stonehenge’s large boulders share origin in west woods, Wiltshire. Most of the hulking sandstone boulders — called sarsens — that make up the…
The classic dinosaur family tree has two subdivisions of early dinosaurs at its base: the Ornithischians, or bird-hipped dinosaurs, and the Saurischians, or lizard-hipped dinosaurs.…
Music training does not have a positive impact on children’s cognitive skills, such as memory, and academic achievement, such as mathematicss, reading or writing, according…
“Dormio takes dream research to a new level, interacting directly with an individual’s dreaming brain and manipulating the actual content of their dreams,” says Robert…
The researchers worked for example with samples from an excavation in Oxford: A mass grave where more than 30 skeletons were discovered. One of the…
“I think when someone manages to make a scientific concept beautiful, it explains to people outside science how beautiful science can be. And that, I…
Steven Fons. Credit: Calle Schonning Ph.D. student Steven Fons’ Arctic research adventure, complicated by COVID-19. For Steven Fons, returning home to D.C. in June was…
Painting by Israel Bernbaum, 1981. Oil on canvas, 70 3/8 x 82 1/4 inches. Credit: Property of the Montclair State University Permanent Collection, MSU 2011.003.002,…
A 1200-year-old smallpox-infected Viking skeleton found in Öland, Sweden. Credit: The Swedish National Heritage Board Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth…
Coronavirus is changing life as we know it on a daily basis. But what will our world look like in the next five years? How…
Diet of shochu distillation remnants is an economical way to reduce animals’ stress, improve meat quality. Tastier pork comes from pigs that eat the barley…
The fear that people developed at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak has given way to anger over the course of the pandemic, a study…
Dr. Imogen Napper loads up a washing machine as part of the study. Credit: University of Plymouth Using fiber-catching devices as part of the laundry…
A laser-etched, energy absorbing, water wicking metal surface, continually angled directly at the sun, provides a cheap, efficient way to purify water from sunlight. The…
A new report from the University of Chicago Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic measured 2018 police department policies against standards like those set by…