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First Effective Treatment for Back Pain Changes How Brain and Back Communicate
The first effective treatment for back pain which changes how the brain and back communicate has been developed by scientists.
The 12-week course which focuses...
Diabetes Might Be Cured Using Healthy Stool Samples, Say Researchers at UCSD
Experiments found microscopic organisms transplanted into mice stopped the progression of diabetes—and the technique could end the need for painful insulin injections for human...
When Antibiotics Failed, She Found a Natural Enemy of Superbug Bacteria to Save Husband’s Life
Tom Patterson was dying in a U.S. hospital from a massive bacterial infection he’d contracted while traveling in Egypt. Doctors gave him a prognosis...
Teen Finds Woman’s Purse and is Rewarded With $17,000 After He Delivers it to Her Door
A 17-year-old teen in San Diego returned a purse left in a grocery store parking lot—and although he expected nothing in return, hundreds of...
Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Pain by Separating it From the Self
For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but neuroscientists recently showed it does actually work—by interrupting communications...
Unique Initiative Trains Homeless Folks to Drive Vans to Rescue Food For Distribution Back in the Shelter
A unique collaboration between a trio of organizations in San Diego, California, reached a milestone in providing food and employment to those who need...
School Closures During Lockdowns Slashed Rates of Mysterious Fever That Causes Heart Disease in Kids
School closures due to Covid lockdowns resulted in much lower rates of the mysterious fever that causes heart disease in kids, according to new...
How ‘Frozen Zoos’ Are Helping Save Vanishing Species
Over the last two decades, a secret institution has gone largely uncredited with some fairly remarkably achievements in animal conservation.
But as well as potentially...
Watch a Stunning Solar Eclipse on Mars in Video Captured By NASA’s Perseverance Rover
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured dramatic footage of Phobos, Mars’ potato-shaped moon, crossing the face of the Sun.
These observations can help scientists better...
Eating Avocados Twice a Week is Linked With lowering Heart Disease by 16-22%
Eating two or more servings of avocado weekly was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, and substituting avocado for certain fat-containing foods...
Sex Pheromones Could Help Stop Asian Giant Hornets from Invading UK and ‘Wreaking Havoc’
Sex pheromones could help stop 'murder hornets' from invading the UK and elsewhere and wreaking havoc, according to a new study.
The stimulating odors produced...
How Peru’s Andean Condors Saved the California Condor from Extinction
This article is written by Enrique Ortiz and has been reprinted with permission from Mongabay.
A few years ago, alone on the top of a...
Sisters Recreate Adorable Photo – With Daughters Stepping into Roles That Dreamed of Motherhood
Two sisters got pregnant around the same time—enabling them to recreate this adorable childhood photo of them, when they were dreaming of becoming mothers,...
Virgin Births Have Been Documented in Rare Bird Population – The Endangered California Condor
The temptation to quote Jurassic Park must have been irresistible for conservation scientists at a San Diego Zoo breeding program for critically-endangered California condors,...
Wisdom and Loneliness May Be Shaped by Healthy Gut Microbes, Researchers Believe
The evolving science of wisdom rests on the idea that wisdom's defined traits correspond to distinct regions of the brain, and that greater wisdom...
Island Overrun With Rats Completely Recovers in Only 11 Years After Ecosystem Had Been Decimated
Formerly known as ‘Rat Island’, this beautiful spot in the Aleutian islands has become a new example of how ecosystems can fully recover to...
One of the First Publicly-Traded Psychedelic Wellness Companies is Mapping the Mental Health Revolution
It took decades of cultural change mixed with legislative progress and increasing commercial viability to bring widespread use of cannabis and cannabis derivatives to...
Aptera Solar-Powered Car With ‘1,000-Mile’ Range Gets 7,000 Preorders for Delivery in 2021
Looking like a mix between an F-1 car and the Batmobile, the world's first mass-produced solar-powered car just took several more steps towards its...
First Cloned Endangered Species in U.S. From Genes Frozen 30 Years Ago Gives Hope For Black-footed Ferret
Black-footed ferret recovery efforts aimed at increased genetic diversity and disease resistance took a bold step forward on Dec. 10, 2020, with the birth...
From City to Countryside, Study Suggests Wisdom Can Protect Against Loneliness
Over the last few decades, there has been growing concern about loneliness across all ages, particularly in middle-aged and older adults, but a new...