5 Weekend Morning Mistakes That Secretly Screw Up Your Whole Week
By the time the weekend rolls around, most of us are exhausted. Burnout is at an all-time high in the United States and people, understandably, want to use their weekends (or whatever days they get off during the week) to relax, socialize and sleep in. But creating and maintaining a weekend morning routine can really […]
Why uncertainty makes us change our behavior — even when we shouldn’t
People around the world dramatically changed their shopping behaviours at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with new uncertainty, shoppers began stocking up on basic household items — especially toilet paper — to account for the new unknown. This buying frenzy led to shortages, even though, in most cases, there would have been enough […]
Martian global dust storm ended winter early in the south
A dust storm that engulfed Mars in 2018 destroyed a vortex of cold air around the planet’s south pole and brought an early spring to the hemisphere. By contrast, the storm caused only minor distortions to the polar vortex in the northern hemisphere and no dramatic seasonal changes. Dr Paul Streeter of The Open University’s […]
More than 1.5 million children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Addressing the impact of caregiver deaths critical for pediatric mental health, authors note
More than 1.5 million children around the world are estimated to have lost at least one parent, custodial grandparent, or grandparent who lived with them due to death related to COVID-19 during the first 14 months of the pandemic, according to a study published today in The Lancet. The study highlights orphanhood as an urgent […]
DNA reveals the evolutionary history of museum specimens
Museum specimens held in natural history collections around the world represent a wealth of underutilized genetic information due to the poor state of preservation of the DNA, which often makes it difficult to sequence. An international team, led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Museum of Natural History of the City […]
5 Mental Health Conditions That Are Way Underdiagnosed
Mental health awareness has spread significantly in the past decade in the United States and around the world. Public health groups have made it clear that mental health is every bit as important as physical health, and society has embraced that important shift, too. Most Americans now say they value their emotional well-being as much […]
Brain circuit for spirituality?
More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity has been sparse. Previous studies have used functional neuroimaging, in which an individual undergoes a brain scan while performing a task to see what areas of the brain light up. […]