Did you spend your youth being yelled at about your posture? Parents and teachers can sometimes seem a bit obsessed with standing up straight. And they might have a point: Bad posture can do some real harm, and good posture can be almost miraculous.Bad PostureBad posture can cause many physical problems, and some might not be what you'd expect. Sore neck? Sure. Aching back? Oh yes! But constipation, incontinence and heartburn? Yep, those problems, along with breathing difficulties and reduced en ...read more
The content of this article may be triggering for some. Reader’s discretion is advised. In the mid-1990s, model and actress Karen Duffy had a contract with Revlon, a spot on People magazine’s list of the most beautiful people in the world and a date with actor George Clooney to the Emmy Awards. She also had a persistent, piercing headache that prompted her to see her physician.Duffy was diagnosed with sarcoidosis of the central nervous system, an inflammatory disease in which the immune ...read more
Citizen science asks everyday volunteers to make observations of the world around them and add data to research projects that scientists use to answer big questions. When you make citizen science observations, you might enter the information into an app, take a photo or answer a few questions in an online form and hit submit. That might be the end of your part of the process, but submitting a data point is just the first step in the long, rigorous journey from observation to scientific conclus ...read more
This article was originally published on Nexus Media. On a clear morning in April, after milking his seven cows, Tim Sauder looked over the pasture where he had just turned the animals out to graze. Like many dairy farms, Sauder’s fields swayed with a variety of greenery: chicory, alfalfa and clover. But they were also full of something typically missing on an agricultural landscape — trees. Thousands of them.Between 2019 and 2021, Sauder planted 3,500 trees at Fiddle Creek Dairy, a 55-acre ...read more
An ambitious space project is underway to help answer a fundamental question about our universe: Does life exist elsewhere in the solar system?On April 14, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) successfully launched, with its sights set on the biggest planet in our orbit.After 13 years in the making, the craft left from the European Space Agency spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.JUICE Mission (Illustration Credit: Shutterstock/ joshimerbin)The mission is scheduled for arrival in the Jovian sys ...read more
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