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Ketamine Might Be The Key To Treating Depression
The most intriguing way of putting it is that a notoriously unpredictable and dangerous club drug may be the solution to depression. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this isn't the entire story. So why, in a...
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Complex Brains Existed 520 Million Years Ago In Cockroach Relative
Your everyday cockroach might not seem terribly intelligent. But new fossil evidence from 520 million years ago suggests that this insidious insect might have had some surprisingly smart early...
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These Everyday Items Were Dosed With Radium Until We Discovered It Was Toxic
Radium was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898. In 1903, the Royal Academy of Sciences awarded Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, making Marie...
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Keep Your Eyes Peeled For A Bright Moon And Venus In Friday Morning's Sky
With daylight saving time still in effect across most of the United States and Canada, the sun is now rising at many localities after 7 a.m. local time. That means dawn is coming late, so a lot of...
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Here's How Nobel Winners Spend Their Cash Prize
The Nobel Prize confers significant prestige on its winners, but it also comes with a nice cash bonus. This week the 2012 prizes are being announced in Stockholm, Sweden, and the awards will be...
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Bubbles In 700,000-Year-Old Meteorites Contain Ancient Martian Air
Black glass from a Martian meteorite that crashed in Morocco last summer may shed light on not only the surface of the Red Planet but also its interior and atmosphere, a new study reveals. Rocks are...
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20 People Who Overcame Depression To Become Rich And Famous
In a given year, more than 18 million American adults – nearly 10 percent of the adult population – will suffer from a depressive illness. So odds are good that you, a relative, or a co-worker has or...
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Meet 11 Species That Are Set To Take Over The Earth
Invasive species are bad news. They compete with native critters for food, destroy local ecology and, in some cases, are even dangerous to humans. And thanks to the increasingly global nature of our...
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Curiosity's First Science Target Turns Out To Be A New And Unexpected Type Of...
A rock on Mars being studied by NASA's Curiosity rover is unlike any Martian stone ever seen, and is surprisingly similar to an unusual, but well-known, kind of rock on Earth. This type of rock is the...
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Why Flirting Has Always Been Woman’s Best Weapon
Since Helen of Troy, women have found that flirting will get them what they want. Readers, I have a dark confession: I live to flirt. Not flagrant, purposeful, succumb-to-me-now flirtation (though...
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Fukushima Operator Admits Nuclear Crisis Was Avoidable
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday admitted it had played down the risks to the facility of a tsunami for fear of the political, financial and reputational cost. The...
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Stunning Time-Lapse: Fall In Michigan
Fall has come to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, bringing its bright colors and beautiful scenery — and film student Mike Kvackay was there to take a time-lapse video of nature in all its splendor. He...
View ArticleA House-Sized Asteroid Will Whiz Past Earth Today
An asteroid the size of a house will buzz Earth today (Oct. 12) but poses no risk of hitting our planet, scientists say. The asteroid 2012 TC4 will pass Earth at a range of just 59,000 miles (95,000...
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Washington Could Be The First State To Legalize The Sale Of Marijuana
Washington state is on the verge of becoming the first in the nation to let adults over 21 buy taxed, inspected marijuana at state-licensed shops. It might not clear up more than a decade of confusion...
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The Super Badass Velociraptor From Jurassic Park Is Actually Nothing Like...
Velociraptor—"raptor" for short—roamed the Earth about 75 million to 71 million years ago toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, which was the glory days of the dinosaurs. Velociraptor was named in...
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The Most Disgusting Defense Mechanisms In Nature
Scientists recently recorded footage of a never-before-seen defense mechanism deployed by a small species of deep-sea squid: When threatened, the squid attacks its predator and then pulls away,...
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Tsunami-Riding Japanese Sea Creatures Are Attacking American Coastal Waters
Sea creatures found to be hitchhiking on debris swept across the Pacific Ocean by the Japanese tsunami pose a threat to sealife in Canada and the United States. It flattened entire towns, washed away...
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3 Psychological Reasons Why We Can't Stop Eating
Here's why modern humans have such a hard time controlling their appetite: 1) You ignore the importance of context. You ate more because you were hungry? Maybe, but you’re probably not giving nearly...
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The Moon's Water Could Come From The Sun
Glass beads within moon rocks suggest that water seen on the lunar surface originates from the solar wind, researchers say. These findings suggest that other airless bodies in the solar system may...
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How Your Immune System Could Be Making You Depressed
An over-excited immune system may explain why some people are susceptible to depression, according to new research on mice. Mice whose immune systems responded to stress by overproducing an...
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