A century ago, science’s understanding of the brain was primitive, like astronomy before telescopes. Certain brain injuries were known to cause specific problems, like loss…
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Despite “green” burials becoming increasingly available in North America, some older eco-conscious adults remain unaware of the option when planning for their deaths, a small…
Black holes sit on the cusp of the unknowable. Anything that crosses a black hole’s threshold is lost forever, trapped by an extreme gravitational pull.…
Tiny holes in three fossil clams reveal that by 75 million years ago, ancient octopuses were deviously drilling into their prey. The find pushes evidence…
The upbeat song “Sweet Caroline” often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the song for an older person,…
Gory DetailsErika EngelhauptNational Geographic, $26 We tend to turn away, physically or metaphorically, from things we find unsavory: leggy insects, bodily fluids, conversations about death.…
An ancient bone from a dog, discovered in a cave in southeast Alaska, hints at when and how humans entered the Americas at the end…
And then there were three: A single-shot vaccine is the latest weapon to join the battle against COVID-19 in the United States. On February 27,…
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. By the…
Within a couple weeks after a first vaccine dose, people are well protected against severe COVID-19, new data suggest. With demand for shots far outpacing…