Some Women Are Ending Their Periods. Is That Safe?
Because periods are inconvenient, many women are choosing to end them entirely with hormonal birth control. This episode ...
South Korea Is Heading for a Population Collapse
South Korea is heading toward a demographic collapse unlike anything the world has seen before. With the lowest fertility rate ever recorded and a rapidly aging population, the countr ...
How Psychiatry Has Been Weaponized to Control Societies
In his new book, No More Normal, psychiatrist Alastair Santhouse recalls an experience from the 1980s when he was a ...
Two Materials Merged Into Synthetic Quantum Structure
An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a ...
Childhood Air Pollution Linked to Reduced Brain Connectivity
A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has ...
Fractals Appear When You Pull Things Apart
(via Steve Mould) Saffman–Taylor instability occurs when a less viscous fluid is pushed into a more viscous fluid.
What Turned These Ancient Trees to Stone?
Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth's most extreme periods of environmental change.
Which Planet Has the Strongest Quakes?
Earth might be the only planet with tectonic plates, but it is not the only one with quakes because quakes can be caused by a ...