Lately napping has garnered new respect, thanks to solid scientific evidence that midday dozing benefits both mental acuity and overall health.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory.
Cassini was on course to plunge through Saturn’s atmosphere and vaporize like a meteor.
Five prominent species of ash tree in the eastern U.S. have been driven to the brink of extinction from years of lethal attack by a beetle, a scientific group says.
It’s the first study to identify a potential link between miscarriage and the flu vaccine and the first to assess the effect of repeat influenza vaccination and risk of miscarriage.
It has fulfilled its mission goals and then some. It has sent back stunning images and troves of scientific data. And it’s old, as space hardware goes.
Brainiac
For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesn’t exist
MIT researchers demonstrate that it’s impossible to find a faster way of computing “edit distance.”
A study suggests that tuning into the sound of your own chewing can help you eat mindfully--and therefore less.
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