Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day?
In Tennessee, both medical and recreational marijuana use are illegal, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Nashville and Memphis ranked amon
It's often regarded as the ultimate depiction of single life. But a new study suggests that Sex and the City got it wrong - most singletons aren't extraverts like Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte.
National Playground Safety Week begins April 22 and, according to a 2024 study by LawnStarter, Richmond’s playgrounds aren’t looking their best.
Experts in Canada have discovered that people with a higher BMI really do require a bigger shift in brain activity to choose healthy food over their preferred snack.
A provocative fresh study has unearthed a correlation between left-wing convictions and both elevated intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and genetic markers thought to be linked with heightened intelligence. As elucidated by psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in their novel paper, published in the journal Intelligence, a plethora of intelligence assessments revealed […]
Smart Makuyana braves the hot summer temperatures as he wobbles along the 3-kilometer distance (a little under 2 miles) toward the house
Recent revelations from the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University have unveiled the playful antics of bumblebees.
After earning a master’s degree, Kat Goodpaster became assistant director of Carolina’s Russian Flagship Program.
Researchers linked brain chemistry from those who socially isolate to poor mental health, weight gain, cognitive decline and chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Two new studies have described the ways in which tiny microplastics can end up in humans' organs – and even in the brains of mice. One of the studies, published in Environmental Health Perspectives on Apr. 10., involved feeding healthy mice microplastics over a period of four to eight weeks. Scientists later found that various organs in the mice were contaminated. "In mice that ingested microspheres, we detected polystyrene microspheres in distant tissues including the brain, liver, and kidney,"...
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