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The most popular idea for what causes depression in the brain is some kind of chemical imbalance. Many pharmaceutical companies have claimed in their advertising that their antidepressant drugs work by correcting this imbalance. The notion has…

Our bodies are always moving, even when we don’t realize it. We churn through a solar system on a wobbly planet, stand upon shifting tectonic plates, and rise and fall and toss and turn all day and night in a symphony of autonomic and…

We’ve all been through it. Telling a friend something they may not want to hear. Maybe a friend is dating someone who treats them poorly, or they did something that upset you. Or maybe it’s something smaller, like an outfit that just…

If you think this sounds familiar, you’re not wrong. When Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, scientists, archivists, and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania raced to save data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period – a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia.

A new study published in Science on Thursday challenges assumptions about infant…

A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tissue structures in unprecedented detail, offering new insights into the fossilisation process.

In 1889…

When it comes time to whip up your favorite meal, one of the first items you’ll grab is probably some form of vegetable oil or animal fat — like a jug of canola oil or a tub of butter. But have you ever stopped to think about what option is the…

That’s what DESI was designed to do: take precise measurements of the apparent size of these bubbles (both near and far) by determining the distances to galaxies and quasars over 11 billion years. That data can then be sliced into chunks to…

There’s a lot to remember from your time as a baby — your first smile, your first steps, your first words. But chances are, you’ve forgotten all of it, a phenomenon called infantile amnesia.

For a long time, infantile amnesia was thought to…

Space, to the naked eye, appears still, tranquil. But to scientists viewing it through increasingly powerful telescopes, it looks turbulent, with violent streams of gas buffeting dusty materials that form fascinating shapes, then disperse.

Now an…