16+ hour, 38+ min ago  (670+ words) Home " Science " Neurology The brains even entered a psychedelic-like state without any drugs. A single week of meditation can trigger a systemic overhaul of the brain's internal chemistry'and researchers are starting to understand how it happens. After tracking participants through…...

21+ hour, 36+ min ago  (618+ words) A rare toad changed the fate of a river by becoming the first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam. It's now in trouble. On that occasion, the Forqueta River rose and swallowed its own course. The rocks and the outcrop…...

21+ hour, 33+ min ago  (694+ words) A glass thread strung along the bottom of a fjord captured the entire process of calving, from the cracking of ice to the breakup of bergs. On Greenland's coast, glaciers meet the sea in narrow fjords that have been carved…...

20+ hour, 56+ min ago  (586+ words) By watching us, a new AI helps robots improvise, fold laundry, and fix mistakes. The most interesting claim is the model's apparent ability to improvise when something goes wrong. When a robot powered by GEN-1 drops a piece, it figures…...

21+ hour, 10+ min ago  (755+ words) A single guided dose of psilocybin vastly outperforms standard nicotine patches in quitting smoking. Medicine has typically treated cigarette addiction as a chemical problem requiring a chemical substitute. This usually means swapping tobacco for patches, gums, and lozenges. Yet the…...

21+ hour, 56+ min ago  (635+ words) With plants that look right out of Avatar, cities might soon be lit by glowing foliage instead of streetlamps. For millions of years, fireflies have relied on a precise chemical ballet to signal for mates in the summer dusk. Meanwhile,…...

21+ hour, 49+ min ago  (493+ words) The judicial system doesn't yet have a clear solution A British court recently waded into a case that sounds less like a legal proceeding and more like a daytime soap opera script. A woman had sex with two identical twin…...

1+ day, 53+ min ago  (137+ words) Home " Other " Great Pics Look at the exact moment four astronauts saw the far side of the moon for the first time. For years, NASA's push back to the moon has been a story told through CAD models, static fire…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (241+ words) Most recent live updates from Artemis II mission to the moon. NASA's Artemis II mission has made history. Right now, four astronauts are coasting back toward Earth after thoroughly acing the main event. Here is a quick recap of what…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (308+ words) Samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu contain the four genetic "letters" of DNA. A'recent study published in'Nature Astronomy'provides strong new support for that hypothesis. Scientists identified all five nucleobases'the chemical "letters" that make up DNA and RNA'in a sample taken…...