When you set your alarm for 6:00 a.m. this morning, you thought you’d selected an appropriate time. But maybe you stayed up a little too late, or maybe you tossed and turned a little too much. Now it’s 6:09 a.m., and you’re tempted to press the snooze button a second time.Most sleep scientists advise against pressing the snooze button after the alarm sounds on an alarm clock or a smartphone, as the sleep that snoozing provides isn’t particularly beneficial. But a new study in Scientific ...read more
Indonesia has over 100 active volcanoes, including Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, which is currently highly active. As of May 18, 2025, officials from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation (PVMBG) have raised the alert level from 3 (alert) to level 4 (warning) — the highest alert level — as it erupted the night before. Though the eruption was small, experts are still monitoring the situation as the level 4 warning stays in effect. Learn more about what these levels indica ...read more
A team of researchers have conducted a series of experiments showing that living things emit a very weak, but detectable packets of light. The signal is at the photonic level, according to a study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. The fact that experiments could measure this tiny amount of electromagnetic energy in both mice and plants — “in all living systems that have been examined,” according to the paper — remains notable. In order to do so, the researchers crea ...read more
Key Takeaways on ALS, or Stephen Hawking's Condition: ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Stephen Hawking lived with ALS for 55 years and advocated for research and helped bring awareness to the disease. ALS is fatal, and impacts a person's ability to talk, eat, walk, and breath. Progress for treatment includes a genetic treatment, Qalsody, that was approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in 2023.In 1939, Lou Gehrig, the first baseman ...read more
Bats are the only mammals that can fly (though some can glide). They have excellent hearing, navigate by echolocation, and they can eat their body weight in insects in a single night. But bats’ most impressive superpower is a remarkable tolerance to viral infections. Bats host many viruses, viruses that would sicken and even kill other mammals, without suffering serious consequences themselves (rabies is an exception). And that superpower may be related to the ability to fly, explains Cara Br ...read more
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