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Heat and mood are closely linked, which may explain summertime depression—and how to treat it
Summertime Sadness Could Be a Type of Seasonal Affective Disorder
These mobile radiography units, known as “Little Curies,” treated an estimated one million soldiers.
Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage.
Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
When Art Was the Scientist's Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the American Museum of Natural History.
“Collectively, all natural history museums in the world hold our physical knowledge of the planet.”
1.1 Billion Objects and Counting: Inside the Effort to Tally Natural History Specimens Around the Globe This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums
Between 2010 and 2019, she found 2,298 live cheetahs illegally advertised online by 528 sellers, with most advertisements appearing on social media.
On the Hunt: The Effort to Track the Illegal Cheetah Trade Scientists are testing new tools to spot the origin of cheetahs poached from the wild and smuggled for the pet trade.
Located in the southeast corner of Algeria, it comprises the remnants of a vast Precambrian sandstone plateau, extending across 2,780 square miles of the central Sahara, bordering Libya and Niger.
It’s been called ‘the greatest museum of prehistoric art’—but few tourists know it exists In the Algerian desert, dazzling alfresco galleries provide an eloquent record of ancient civilizations. Here’s how you can visit.
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“When our brain is more active, such as when we’re performing a mentally taxing task, our brain needs an immediate boost of energy, but the exact mechanisms that ensure on-demand local supply of metabolic energy to active brain regions are not fully understood.”
How the Brain Signals for Extra Energy A key mechanism that detects when the brain needs an additional energy boost to support its activity has been identified in a study in mice and cells led by UCL scientists.
Dr. Dubey Pathak's extensive research not only brings to light the prehistoric rock art of India but it also highlights the drastic need for its preservation
The Prehistoric Paintings of the Pachmarhi Hills Bradshaw Foundation India Rock Art Archive, with research by Dr. Meenakshi Dubey Pathak on the rock art and paintings in the caves and rock shelters of the Pachmarhi Hills. The prehistoric rock art heritage includes animals, human forms and symbols.
“Cave art was part of the package deal in terms of how homo sapiens came to have this very high-level cognitive processing,” says Miyagawa, a professor of linguistics and the Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT.
The writing on the wall When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests an MIT professor.
Careful exploration of the caves turned up hundreds of examples of artwork by the Stone Age Magdalenian peoples. These ancient humans were known to hunt reindeer, horses, and other big game during the waning of the Ice Age.
15,000-Year-Old Bison Sculptures Are Perfectly Preserved in a French Cave This is clear proof that humans have been creating art inspired by animals for thousands of years.
The Best Vanilla Ice Cream is a homemade, custard-based ice cream recipe that tastes so much better than anything store-bought.
The woolly rhinoceros faced extinction about 10,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age. New research shows that shrinking habitats played a central role in the species' demise.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/habitat-troubles-hindered-the-woolly-rhinos-chance-of-survival
The discovery of a Neanderthal child with what appeared to be significant health complications indicative of Down syndrome has swayed debate over the origins of communal healthcare within our species.
https://www.sciencealert.com/fossilized-bone-of-neanderthal-with-down-syndrome-challenges-ideas-of-prehistoric-care
Decellularization as a process for implantation is fairly new, developed in the mid 1990s primarily by Doris Taylor. By washing out the genetic materials that make an apple an apple, for example, you are left with plant tissue, or a “cellulose mesh,” explains Pelling.
The Biophysicist Transforming Asparagus Into Medical Implants A horror movie proved an unlikely source of inspiration.
Happy Asteroid Day! 🌠
Today, we celebrate the wonders of our cosmic neighborhood. From rocky to metallic, each one tells a unique story. Which type of asteroid intrigues you the most? 🌌
Typically seen at high altitudes closer to the poles, they are a meteorological rarity in Irish skies.
Also known as 'mother of pearl' their occurrence requires specific conditions, namely extremely low temperatures in the upper atmosphere.
Forming in air around -80C, ice crystals reflect the sun, giving the cloud pearly colours.
Rainbow clouds: Rare phenomenon graces Northern Ireland skies Typically seen at high altitudes closer to the poles, they are a meteorological rarity.
The male Y chromosome in humans is evolving faster than the X. Scientists have now discovered the same trend in six species of primate.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/evolution/y-chromosome-is-evolving-faster-than-the-x-primate-study-reveals
"In this study we identified links between technological developments and changes in the fauna hunted and consumed by early humans. For many years, researchers believed that the changes in stone tools resulted from biological and cognitive changes in humans.
Researchers discover 400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer in Israel A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ago to process fallow deer. The tools, called Quina scrapers (after the site in France where they were first discovered), were unearthed at the prehistoric sites of Jaljulia a...
Rosemary and Roasted Garlic White Bean Soup
Cook roasted garlic first:
3 heads garlic, top 1/8 inch removed
1 tablespoon oil
Drizzle the oil over the top of the exposed garlic, wrap in aluminum foil, and roast in a preheated 350F/180C oven until lightly golden brown and super tender, about 60-90 minutes.
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For the soup:
1 tablespoon oil
1 onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, chopped
4 cups chicken broth (or vegetable broth)
3 (14.5 ounce) cans white beans, rinsed and drained
2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, chopped (or 1 teaspoon dried rosemary)
1/4 cup parmigiano reggiano (parmesan cheese), grated (optional)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, add the onions and cook until tender, about 5-7minutes.
Add the chopped garlic and cook until fragrant, about a minute.
Add the broth, beans, and rosemary, bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Squeeze the roasted garlic out of the heads into the soup.
Mix in the parmesan and lemon juice and season with salt and pepper to taste before enjoying!
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The aim, it appears, is to teach children that only Christians are real Americans. It is also part of a larger plan to sidestep the Constitution and allow conservative Christianity to dictate U.S. laws and policies.
Florida Embeds Christian Nationalism in School The Florida Department of Education has been directing middle school and high school teachers to work Christian nationalism into their lessons. This is
"If these ideas are so clearly mistaken, why is it that so many people get sucked into them?"
Big Think Science
4 categories of pseudoscience — and how to talk to people who believe in them Trying to define pseudoscience with one line failed. One author says there are several types of nonsense, and a few ways to address them.
Why is the syllable "ma" associated with mothers, and "da" or "pa" with fathers, in otherwise highly different languages across the globe? Evolutionary researchers believe they have some answers.
Why Everyone Calls Their Mothers "Mama" And why most babies still say "dada" first.
Kemere said. “It turns out some neurons end up doing something else.
In the Sleeping Brain, Some Neurons Replay the Past and Rehearse the Future Some dreams may, in fact, predict the future: New research has found that during sleep, some neurons not only replay the recent past but also anticipate future experience.
In this article, we examine some of the latest findings on how trauma impacts the immune system, how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may increase the risk of autoimmune disease and some of the efforts being made to combat inflammation to treat trauma and stress-related disorders.
How Does Trauma Impact the Immune System? Researchers have found that individuals with trauma-related disorders experience an array of physiologic alterations, including immune system disruption. Here, we highlight some of the latest research addressing trauma’s impact on the immune system.
Can you solve this geometry puzzle? Determine the area of the unknown rectangle! 🟧🔢
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