People have long believed that using psychedelic drugs such as LSD, DMT, and psilocybin (from ″magic mushrooms”) can help the body fight inflammation. Scientific support for this idea has emerged in ...

The Ball Method is a new short film that tells the story of African American chemist Alice Ball who found an effective treatment for leprosy in 1915 when she was 23 years old. Written and directed by ...

There are a few more complexities that could change the color a star appears to us. For example, clouds on brown dwarfs may change how their atmosphere absorbs light, and that’s something researchers ...

This is a nice piece about some interesting implications of using VR in research. I like that you mentioned the limited sensory information available in VR environments. Besides the lack of sensory ...

Makes a lot of sense – thanks for clarifying. Perhaps the point I misconstrued from my short, unrelated interview with this postdoc was the point that it’s a challenge to transfer systems between ...

The thought of losing DNA for survival sounds bizarre, but many life forms do this at different stages of their life. For example, the parasitic worm Ascaris, also called the roundworm, loses about 13 ...

As a lover of plants, this was a great read. I think this article perfectly illustrates how scientific findings that came from very controlled laboratory environments don’t always apply to the real ...

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 ...

Interesting article! It’s also important to note that these algorithms are trained using a stand-in measure of the actual outcome - so “likelihood of being convicted of a crime” is often treated as an ...

Most of the Earth’s biosphere is permanently cold and contains environments below 0° C, known as the cryosphere. Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi call the cryosphere home, despite the seemingly ...

There are so many women scientists that we’ve never even heard of (or at least I haven’t!) who suffered endless frustrations and discrimination to make a difference for future generations. I was ...

The researchers confirmed that the desired carotene gene had indeed been inserted by sequencing the plant’s genome and comparing it to to the unaltered golden rice genome. They found one line of ...