Stone forests — pointed rock formations resembling trees that populate regions of China, Madagascar, and many other locations worldwide — are as majestic as they…
Social distancing during COVID-19 creates new contexts for drug use. People have traded in nightclubs and dance festivals for virtual raves and Zoom happy hours…
A team of scientists has concluded that our cognitive limitations lead to probability distortions and to subsequent errors in decision-making. The chances of a commercial…
Innovative tools and pendants previously thought to be possibly the work of Neanderthals. Blade-like tools and animal tooth pendants previously discovered in Europe, and once…
Findings have implications for increasing plant nitrogen use efficiency, reducing reliance on fertilizers. Plant scientists have long known that crop yield is proportional to the…
Teeth constitute a permanent and faithful biological archive of the entirety of the individual’s life, from tooth formation to death, a team of researchers has…
Radio telescope in the Netherlands captures habitats of planets outside our solar system. A team of scientists using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope…
Changes within enamel cells point to mechanism by which excessive fluoride leads to fluorosis. Exposing teeth to excessive fluoride alters calcium signaling, mitochondrial function, and…
Scientists Find Record Warm Water in Antarctica, Pointing to Cause Behind Troubling Glacier Melt A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, the…
Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a new technique that allows a type of filter paper (comparable to coffee filter paper) to store cells…
Antianxiety and Antidepressant Effects From a Single Dose of Psilocybin Persist Years Later in Cancer Patients Following up on their landmark 2016 study, researchers at…
Flame Retardants and Pesticides Overtake Heavy Metals As Biggest Contributors to IQ Loss Adverse outcomes from childhood exposures to lead and mercury are on the…
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside the Solar System Some exoplanets are thought to have liquid water on their surface and therefore the potential…
The health of cells is maintained, in part, by two types of movement of their nucleoli, a team of scientists has found. This dual motion…
Study points to need for programs to prevent drug-related harm among workers in risky industry. Construction workers are more likely to use drugs than workers…
NYU researchers test whether ‘lunar hypothesis’ is founded on superstition or empirical data. Just in time for Halloween, the BetaGov team at NYU’s Marron Institute…
Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a surface, shows new research by a team of scientists,…
Self-reported suicide attempts rising in black teens as other groups decline with troubling trends seen among black high school students in particular. Adding to what…