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Electricity Saved My Brain This is the final part in a series on deep brain stimulation for depression. Read from the beginning. Neurologist Helen Mayberg [more…]
Electricity Saved My Brain This is the final part in a series on deep brain stimulation for depression. Read from the beginning. Neurologist Helen Mayberg [more…]
Meteorites offer tantalizing clues about what the early solar system was like. But finding them is far from rocket science. Often, researchers simply fan out [more…]
Modified logs dating to about 476,000 years ago might be the oldest evidence of wooden structures, a new study finds. Wooden artifacts decompose easily and [more…]
Searching for superheavies — Science News, September 8, 1973 Physicists and chemists have been actively searching for superheavy elements, substances with atomic weights and numbers [more…]
For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a [more…]
The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you [more…]
Like people, leaves have their limits when it comes to heat. Scientists first reported in 1864 that the leaves of some plants could survive up [more…]
Ask Clara Sousa-Silva about her research and she’ll be absolutely clear: Yes, she is looking for aliens. But she is not hunting them. “The idea [more…]
A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their [more…]
Scientists have only observed supermassive black holes one billion years after the Big Bang, but astrophysicists have now breached this barrier. Astronomical observations made in [more…]