How does our world work on a subatomic level? The Standard Model. What a dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human…
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Not All Calories Are Equal – A Dietitian Explains How the Kinds of Foods You Eat Matter to Your Body
Even if two foods share the same calorie count, there can be major differences in how they affect your body. A calorie is a calorie…
Physically removing bad or unwanted memories by altering synapses in the brain may one day be possible. All memory storage devices, from your brain to…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in the Block 1 cargo configuration as it leaves Earth. Credit: NASA Astronomers ended 2021 on a…
Could it happen? Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change…
How do you see the world? What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe…
Glaciers like Antarctica’s Byrd Glacier are showing cracks and movement. Credit: United States Geological Survey The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice…
The Omicron variant has been confirmed in all continents except Antarctica. Omicron, the first COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…
How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious…
Early-onset colorectal cancer rates have been increasing since the 1990s. Early-onset colorectal cancer incidence among the young, defined as those under age 50, has been…
Disturbing the habitats of horseshoe bats, like these in Borneo, increases the risk of virus spillover. Credit: Mike Prince/Flickr, CC BY The COVID-19First identified in…
Understanding how much protection a vaccine offers is not as simple as it sounds. The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology…
Tornadoes are hard to capture in climate models. The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec.…
Brown poop can indicate good health. Three-quarters of your poop consists of water and most of the rest is food your body didn’t digest. Once…
The best way to stop a contagious virus like COVID-19 is through a worldwide vaccination program. Now that kids ages 5 to 11 are eligible…
Some vaccines use mRNA to make copies of the triangular red spike proteins to induce immunity. If the omicron variant of the coronavirus is different…
A quiet months-long legal fight between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and drugmaker Moderna over COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease…
Record numbers of Americans have quit their jobs in recent months, with more than 4.4 million submitting their resignation in September alone. Millions more may…
A new variant named omicron (B.1.1.529) was reported by researchers in South Africa on November 24, 2021, and designated a “variant of concern” by the…
Surplus corn piled outside a farmer’s co-op storage facility in Paoli, Colorado. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade,…