How Exactly Does Exercise Help Your Brain?
Well-trained muscles could be protecting the body from an imbalance of chemicals that lead to depression
Some Surgery Is No Better Than Sham “Placebo” Surgery
The placebo effect isn’t just for pills
Cancer Spreads Through Our Bodies at Night
This could mean that therapies delivered after dark might be more effective
Scientists Figure Out Why Mozzarella Is the Perfect Pizza Cheese
It’s all about the elasticity, moisture and oil content
Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children
It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species
The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors
The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes
Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth
There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor
What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?
A lifetime of chronic health issues
Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?
Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors
A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs
Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children
Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals’ survival at risk
The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors
Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon’s most distinctive features
How the Humble Hydra Lives, As Far as We Know, Forever
Hydra don’t seem to die of old age. But why?
The Aral Sea Is Pretty Much Gone
The fourth largest lake in the world is less than a tenth of its former size
Pollution From Hawaii Is Giving Sea Turtles Gross, Deadly Tumors
Nitrogen runoff gets into the turtles’ food and causes tumors on their faces, flippers and organs
Enough Ice Has Melted in Antarctica to Alter the Earth’s Gravity
The gravity loss is tiny but indicates big changes in ice coverage
Apollo-Era Data Is Helping Scientists Look for Gravitational Waves
Seismometers that were placed on the moon during the Apollo program collected data that is being used by physicists today
35,000 Walruses Are Crowding Onto One Alaskan Beach
Some animals have already been killed on the beach, most likely by stampedes
Thank Soil Microbes for White Truffles’ Heavenly Aroma
Bacteria produce the signature smell that truffle-sniffing dogs and pigs pick up on
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