Category Science

New research reveals that American children who report memories of past lives grow up to lead normal, productive lives, with many finding spiritual meaning in their unique childhood experiences. Published in Frontiers in Psychology | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes…

November 19, 2024 5 min read Bury Me on the Moon—Preferably on the Far Side The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development By Rick N. Tumlinson Ana J Cárdenas/Getty Images…

Every oceanographer I know who is studying the controversial idea of coaxing the ocean to absorb extra carbon dioxide from the atmosphere remembers the moment they decided to start this contentious work. For me, it came during the Pacific Northwest…

Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a mathematician at Princeton. “We have to be suspicious, even about things that intuitively look very likely to be true.” Gladkov, Pak, and Zimin found many…

In a polarized nation, there is one thing that nearly all Americans agree on, according to a recent study: Sports are good for us. Researchers from The Ohio State University and Ithaca College found that more than 9 out of…

November 19, 2024 2 min read See How Close We Are to Gender Equality around the World U.N. statistics show progress toward the goal of gender equality but a long way left to go By Clara Moskowitz & Federica Fragapane…

When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money. The second reason is, I want to make the planet a better place. If we cannot fulfill the first one,” he stressed,…

Taking anti-obesity drugs has led some U.S. adults to throw away more food than they tossed before starting the medications, a new study has found. In a survey of people currently on .  About one-third of food in the United…

The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around the globe. Almost every aspect of…

In a finding that deepens one of biology’s most persistent mysteries, NASA-funded scientists have discovered that RNA – a molecule central to life’s origins – shows no inherent preference for creating left-handed or right-handed protein building blocks. This unexpected revelation…