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Enlarge / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Travelers from France wait on their delayed flight on the check-in floor of the Delta Air Lines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.…
A study in Australia revealed that women experiencing more protective paternalism tended to feel greater psychological distress and to be less satisfied with their relationship. They also tended to see their partners as less reliable and more patronizing and undermining.…
In this week’s Extreme Climate Update, we look at record-breaking temps around the world and explain what the heat index is.
Once upon a time, newly minted graduates dreamt of creating online social media that would bring people closer together. That dream is now all but a distant memory. In 2024, there aren’t many ills social networks don’t stand accused of:…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) In 1972, Janet Rowley sat at her dining room table and cut tiny chromosomes from photographs she had taken in her laboratory. One by one, she snipped out the small figures her children teasingly called paper…
Goldene (noun, “Goal-DEEN”) Goldene is a single layer of gold atoms. This makes it a 2-D, or two-dimensional, material — a sheet of some substance that is only one or two atoms thick. Hundreds of other 2-D materials have been…
What do beef jerky and some woolly mammoths have in common? Drying turns their DNA into super-tough glass. DNA in this form is extremely stable. In fact, scientists have now found such glassy DNA from a woolly mammoth that has…
The statue was created by the Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age culture that once inhabited what is now Pakistan.
In a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, researchers investigated the prevalence of narcissistic personality traits among adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They found that a notable proportion of ADHD patients exhibited signs of narcissistic personality…
We know that people in colder environments eat more calories. But why does our hunger abate in the heat?
