Rachel Nuwer
Medical marijuana for animals? Veterinarians test treating pets and zoo animals with CBD and THC
Many people and their doctors have embraced medical marijuana for health ills, treating pets and zoo animals with CBD and ...
Is death a singular event or a process?
Dying is in fact a process—one with no clear point demarcating the threshold across which someone cannot come back ...
Is human intelligence an evolutionary dead end?
The German Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was, by all accounts, a miserable human being. He famously sought meaning through suffering, ...
Cancer testing breakthrough: Experimental blood test can detect disease up to four years before symptoms appear
By using a blood test, [an] international team was able to diagnose cancer long before symptoms appeared in nearly all the ...
If every virus was wiped off the earth, ‘the world will be a wonderful place—for about a day and a half, and then we’d all die’
If given the choice to magically wave a wand and cause all viruses to disappear, most people would probably jump ...
How America is neglecting its growing elderly autistic population
[E]merging research suggests that autistic adults are at high risk of a broad array of physical and mental health conditions, ...
Tallying the supercentenarians
The recent death of 111 year old Alexander Imich highlighted the difficulties in keeping track of the world's oldest people, ...
Genetic testing of ‘Sasquatch samples’ just animal fur
Legends of mysterious part-human creatures have circulated for centuries, and those stories persist today in cultures around the world, from ...
Sperm from skin cells have potential for male infertility treatment
Around 7.5 percent of men in the U.S. visit a fertility doctor at some point in their life, according to ...
Rain keeps giraffe species from interbreeding in Kenya
We tend to think of giraffes as a single species, but in Kenya not one but three types of giraffe ...
Scientists published Henrietta Lacks’ genome without the consent of her family
The following is an excerpt. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a poor black mother of five living near Baltimore, died from ...