Skeleton Lake, formally known as Roopkund Lake, sits at more than 16,000 feet above sea levels in the Himalayas. (Credit: Atish Waghwase)
At the mysterious Skeleton Lake in northern India, the dead are talking,
revealing surprises through centuries-old DNA. And it's not what anyone
expected.
New research suggests the site is not the scene of a single natural disaster
that killed hundreds, as once thought. Skeleton Lake's emerging truth is far
more mysterious. The human bones littering its ...read more
A warm bath before bed can help you get to sleep, research shows. (Credit: MyImages - Micha/Shutterstock)
About 30 percent of Americans have trouble sleeping. Shahab Haghayegh, a University of Texas biomedical engineer, was one of them. Sleep eluded him. “I always had a hard time fall[ing] asleep,” he told Discover via email.
Over the counter medications like the hormone melatonin and Unisom, a sedating anti-histamine, can help people get to sleep. But the medicines aren& ...read more
This blog post is an edited excerpt from Human Impact, a new publication from Science Connected. Edited by Kate Stone and Shayna Keyles, Human Impact delivers 17 true tales of how humanity has changed the Earth, for better or for worse. This chapter appears in Human Impact as “Act Now: Engaging in Citizen Science,” and includes contributions from Caroline Nickerson, Kristin Butler, and Julia Travers.
Act Now: Engaging in Citizen Science
Ci ...read more
Spiraling cloud patterns called Von Kármán vortices, spotted at nighttime off the coast of Morocco on July 19, 2019 by the Suomi NPP satellite. (Source: NASA Earth Observatory)
Spiraling cloud formations are often visible in satellite images — but at night, as seen above?
Until recently, that has been rare, at best. But newer technology for sensing and processing light in the shortwave infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum has made it easier for satellites to s ...read more
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