Altered Stress Sensitivity In Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder
You know how it feels when you’re stressed, right? And you can certainly imagine that stress is not just a subjective experience but also depends…
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“Where Did We Come From?” Using The Fossil Record To Find The True Ancestor Of The Homo Genus
One question that unites all members of the human race is, “Where did we come from?” Historically, we as a species have addressed this question…
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Overweight – An Invisible Social Pattern That Promotes Obesity-Related Chronic Inflammatory Diseases Potentiated By “Immuno-Aging”
Overweight and obesity, to a greater degree, are conditions characterized by abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that impair health and bring about psychosocial and economic…
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Where Do You Come From? Tracking Sediment Provenance Through Lead Isotopes
The quest to understand where something has come from pervades many avenues of science. One important field of geological research is tracking the parenthood of…
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Early Human Settlement On Mars By Sheltering Them In Excavated Underground Structures Due To Harsh Climate And Hazardous Solar And Galactic Cosmic Rays
Humans will be able to reside on new planets in forthcoming years thanks to progression in science and technology, starting with the nearest planets and…
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Enhancing CRISPR/Cas9 Targeting In Cancer Patients
Nowadays, CRISPR/Cas9 technology is the gold standard for knocking out alleles in any biological system through its capacity for inducing double strand breaks (DSB). In…
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Bias In Brazil’s Conservation Efforts
Setting aside land for nature conservation is a strategy that dates back centuries ago. During the 20th and 21st centuries, the number and extent of…
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Cerro Blanco (Central Andes): The Largest Volcanic Eruption Of The Last 5000 Years
One of the biggest mysteries concerning the origin of many recent volcanic ash deposits in NW Argentina has been solved. New data and interpretation about…
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Evolution In Action: Connecting Genes To Survival In Wild Mice Due To Coat Coloration
About 10,000 years ago, light-colored quartz began depositing in what would become modern-day Nebraska, eventually forming sand dunes covering an area of over 50,000 square…
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Studying Negative Experiences During Meditation
More than 25% of people who regularly meditate have had a “particularly unpleasant” psychological experience including feelings of anxiety and distorted thoughts. The new University…
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Hot Electrons Diffuse 100 Times Faster Than Usual
Accidentally touching your hot oven rack makes you painfully aware that metals are very good at conducting heat. If we could zoom in to the…
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