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Over time, two Olympic events have seen their world records drop in pace. We can move more quickly.
Get poised to smash that record. It is inevitable that at least a few world records will be broken when top athletes vie for the highest honors at the Summer […]
Rain Bosworth does research on the worldview of deaf children.
A baby girl wearing a pink onesie glances at a computer screen in a dimly lit room in Rochester, New York. An eye tracker tracks her gaze wherever she looks, […]
Teens are consuming THC in an unrestricted manner. What we know is as follows:
In the United States, a gas station’s back wall could contain items other than just boxes of smokes. Teenagers are purchasing colorful canisters that contain delta-8, a kind of THC, […]
A new U.S. tool illustrates the areas where heat poses health risks.
Summer will arrive. Forecasts indicate that above-average summer temperatures are likely to return to most of the United States following last year’s record-breaking and fatal heat wave (SN: 12/6/23). This […]
Daniel Blanco-Melo is an evolutionary virologist who studies ancient infections.
Measles, mumps, and smallpox. These are some of the infectious diseases that the collapse of Indigenous populations in the Americas at the beginning of the 16th century was probably caused […]
What information about a person’s health can period blood provide?
When you consider getting tested for an illness, blood draws, urine tests, and nose swabs may come to mind first. Period blood does not conjure images of the 1.8 billion […]
These are the altered facial appearances that persons with prosopometamorphopsia may experience.
Picture someone’s face. Now assume there was a probability that the face would always look warped when you gazed at it. That is the life of an individual suffering from […]
These are the substances that cause kids’ body odor to smell strongly.
Almost everything changes during puberty. Muscles get stronger, bodies grow taller, and frequently, body odor gets stronger. Scientists have now discovered a few of the substances that naturally give youngsters […]
For severe frostbite, the United States currently offers a medication. How does it operate?
In the worst situations, frostbite can result in the death of tissues in the nose, fingers, toes, and other extremities, necessitating amputation. American physicians now have a means of protecting […]
It is currently believed that over 1 billion individuals globally suffer from obesity.
It goes without saying that during the previous few decades, obesity rates have increased globally. However, the spike is quantified in a new investigation. As of 2022, more than 1 […]