More than 40 million people rely on the water reserves stored by Lake Powell and Lake Mead, two of the biggest reservoirs in the United States, both of which are located along the Colorado River. Water levels in each of these bodies have hit historic lows as the American West continues to suffer from severe…
CRISPR, the gene-editing technique that allows scientists to change DNA with remarkable ease, was discovered almost a decade ago by a couple of biologists. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize for Physics last year for their work. Scientists all across the world have been looking at how the technique may be utilized…
Keto is a challenging diet. If it isn’t difficult, you aren’t doing it correctly. The diet is marketed as a miraculously pleasurable diet in which you may eat as much fat as you like while avoiding carbs. However, the ketogenic diet (commonly known as keto) was never meant to be enjoyable. It was planned to…
William Hayes begins his quest after the sun has set. He sets out into the southern California desert with nothing but a blacklight in search of biological treasure. Although the UV light does not adequately illuminate the way, it will aid him in spotting his stinging, pinching, eight-legged prey: scorpions. The biology professor from Loma…
The COVID-19 pandemic, which began on March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization proclaimed the viral epidemic a worldwide occurrence, is now in its second year. It’s also been more than a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) stated on January 5, 2020, that a strange virus had emerged in Wuhan, China. More…
Some sections of the globe are beginning to see more heavy rain than they had anticipated. Floods hit cities across the Northeast earlier this month, including one in New York City that completely flooded subway stations. It isn’t just the United States; huge flooding wreaked havoc in Germany just last week, and central China had…
Children are bombarded with gender signals from the minute they are born. Girls wear pink, while boys wear blue; girls are delicate, while guys are tough; girls are ballerinas, while boys are construction workers. These messages aren’t always obvious, but they’re there nonetheless. Kids take these signals and try to make sense of the world…
Gluten-free labels have become increasingly common in the grocery store, even on drinks and snacks that shouldn’t contain gluten, to begin with. However, if you’ve made a joke about gluten-free oats, you might want to retract that remark. Although oats do not inherently contain gluten, research shows that the great majority of the packages in…
It’s safe to say that digital treatment is here to stay. Therapy applications were already gaining traction among people dealing with issues ranging from stress to serious mental disease when the COVID-19 epidemic struck. When offices turned virtual, they carved out a niche for themselves in the mental health industry. While some applications, like Talkspace…
The name of the plague is now the most terrifying aspect of it. Given Yersinia pestis’ history, the ominous label is appropriate: Throughout history, three catastrophic epidemics have killed more than half of the population. It might be terrifying to learn that individuals have contracted the plague and perished as a result of it. The…