This year, many vasectomy patients are young or single men concerned about unwanted pregnancy at a time when abortion care may not be as available…
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Evolutionary psychology may explain why magical thinking is so central to love. In our current age of science, many people see supernatural forces as illusions…
The math of threes is surprisingly powerful. It’s difficult to imagine that three random words have the power to both map the globe and protect…
The new Omicron BA.5 subvariant has caused a sharp rise in cases and hospitalizations throughout much of the United States. The COVID omicron subvariant known…
Polio is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2022. Credit: Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC On July 21, 2022, New York state health officials…
A powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites. According to a recent report in The Space Review, Russia is building a new ground-based laser…
The monkeypox virus, which causes a rash and other symptoms, can be transmitted through close contact between people. Countries that are United Nations members are…
Precise measurements show that Earth’s rotation has been mysteriously slowing down since 2020, making the day longer. Precise astronomical observations, combined with atomic clocks, have…
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 39 light-years from Earth and may have water and clouds, as depicted in…
Dark matter was proposed to explain why stars at a galaxy’s far edge were able to move much faster than predicted with Newton. An alternative…
Tornadoes create very violent and dangerous conditions on the ground. What do tornadoes look like on the inside? It’s a good question, but scientists really…
Words can have a powerful effect on people, even when they’re generated by an unthinking machine. It is easy for people to mistake fluent speech…
A wide variety of pain-relieving drugs are available both over the counter and by prescription. While pain can be horrible, it serves a useful purpose.…
A yacare caiman (Caiman yacare). Reptiles, the majority of which are predators, are cold-blooded and scaly animals. Their ranks include some of the most deadly…
Artist’s illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination. When the asteroid now known…
Thanks to some interesting chemistry, cooking food over an open flame produces unique flavors. Just the mere thought of barbecue’s smoky scents and intoxicating flavors…
Electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles isolated in 2003 in the United States from human samples (left, mature, oval viruses; right, immature, round viruses). Credit:…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
Ribbon weed, Posidonia australis, meadow in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Credit: Rachel Austin, University of Western Australia Scientists were investigating meadows of ribbon weed seagrass…
The 1833 Leonid Meteor storm, as seen over Niagara Falls. Credit: Edmund Weiß (1888) As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris…