(Credit: EJ Hersom/Department of Defense)
It’s a familiar scene that played out most recently at the London marathon: An exhausted runner staggers and falls in the home stretch, unable to will their legs forward another step. It’s an extreme example of a phenomenon endurance athletes come to know intimately, often called “hitting the wall,” or sometimes by the more offbeat term “bonking.”
The proverbial wall appears when our bodies have run out of store ...read more
A Simon and Garfunkel song comes to mind—and that has scientists scratching their heads as the spacecraft heads today for a second dive.
In this illustration, the Cassini spacecraft is shown diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
As the Cassini spacecraft swooped between Saturn and its innermost ring on April 26th, one of its instruments listened for the sounds of its passage through the heretofore unexplored region. What it heard was of g ...read more
A Camellia sinensis shrub. (Credit: LiZhi Gao Lab)
The first draft tea tree genome is revealing how the world’s most popular beverage developed its unique flavors and soothing properties.
Despite the wide variety of teas that adorn store shelves today, there is just one species of plant that produces tea leaves. Two varieties of Camellia sinensis, a type of evergreen shrub, are responsible for everything from Masala chai to oolong teas, with small variations in the way the leaves ar ...read more
Nice piece of tail: Galeamopus pabsti, the newest sauropod dinosaur in the books. (Credit Davide Bonadonna)
The latest big’un of the dinosaur world, Galeamopus pabsti, makes its official debut to science today after hiding in plain sight.
Paleontologists Emanuel Tschopp and Octávio Mateus, authors of the new study, contemplate G. pabsti‘s noggin in an artsy shot I rather like. (Credit Octávio Mateus)
If you want to sum up the sauropods, the group of herbivorous dinosa ...read more
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Depression is challenging to manage, especially since many antidepressants can take weeks to work and simply fail for nearly one-third of sufferers. New research presented in April at the Psychedelic Science 2017 conference in Oakland, California, suggests psychedelic drugs can help people battling depression and other psychiatric disorders that defy conventional therapies.
Brewing Up a Mood Boost
Dráulio Barros de Araújo, a neuroscientist at ...read more
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