Due largely in part to human-induced climate change, up to 40 percent of all species of plants are at risk of extinction. In response, conservationists have developed seed banks, where seeds of ...

Since their introduction in the late 1980s, selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have become the go-to treatment for major depression. SSRIs, however, have a number of limitations: they ...

The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one composed of figures who laid the foundations of their field while also promoting vile racist, sexist, and eugenicist ...

A rapidly changing climate is expected to shift where species live. This will also alter human activities like agriculture and forest conservation, as the ranges of plant pathogens change. Scientists ...

Such a cool study. Thanks for highlighting it Simon and also putting it in the context of existing gold standard, the ventilator. You bring up a great point about how ventilators require a lot of ...

The newly identified psychrotolerant yeast, Rhodotorula frigidialcoholis, was isolated from 150,000-year-old ice cemented permafrost in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The researchers found it ...

People commonly use ice to keep food cold because of convenience, efficiency, and low cost, but water from melting ice can lead to cross-contamination and germ growth. Also, ice packs contain ...

We all encounter stress in our daily lives, but new research is revealing that the way you respond to stress and adverse experiences may be inherited from your parents. Paternal exposure to stressors ...

After all these cogitations, the same question remains: was it worth all the money and, more importantly, all the animal sacrifice? Unlike space-bound dogs, surrogate pets and their spawn do not go ...

Sandwiched inside your laptop, at the back of your smartphone, and under the hood of your dream electric car are powerful and lightweight lithium-ion batteries. Even though these batteries are found ...

It’s widely believed that the now-undeniable therapeutic properties of psilocybin, the chemical found in magic mushrooms, are due to its hallucinogenic, consciousness-warping properties. Psilocybin ...

No one knows for sure where SARS-CoV-2 came from. I don’t know, no one does. But there are two ideas. The first is the virus was harbored by an unknown animal, likely bats, where it mutated and picked ...