New research captures 18 years of US anti-bullying legislation
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Between 1999 and 2017, every state has passed a law addressing bullying, and 90% of those states amended or updated their laws, according to research that…
How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse…
How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse…
How Do Animals React to a Total Solar Eclipse? Scientists Document Strange and Surprising Behaviors | Science
Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation As a total solar eclipse darkened the sky during the afternoon of August 31, 1932, citizen scientist Joseph R. Burgess watched five hives…
DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say
Enlarge / Medical marijuana growing in a facility in Canada. The US Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to reclassify marijuana to a lower-risk drug category, a major federal policy change…
The Soviet Rebel of Music
Explore On a summer evening in 1959, as the sun dipped below the horizon of the Moscow skyline, Rudolf Zaripov was ensconced in a modest dormitory at Moscow State University.…
How to use your smart speaker for better sleep
Besides everything else your smart speaker can do—from weather forecasts to fact checks to playing music—it’s also able to help improve your sleep. That might be by playing sounds to…
Designing drugs with reversible activity
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 30 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41587-024-02242-yA strategy for creating drugs that can be quickly neutralized is demonstrated for anticoagulants. Source link
Virtual Bar Scenes Are a New Tool to Study Why People Commit Crimes in the Heat of the Moment
A young man enters a busy, dimly lit pub in Amsterdam alone to await the arrival of friends. A faint dance beat plays in the background. A drunken man approaches…
Villa near Mount Vesuvius may be where Augustus, Rome’s 1st emperor, died
The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants of another villa built above it many years later, may have been where Augustus, the first Roman…