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How COVID Rewires Our Brains

How COVID Rewires Our Brains

Health
Sarah Carter

New findings indicate that residual COVID-19 proteins lower brain cortisol and intensify immune reactions, shedding light on Long COVID’s neurological symptoms. This ...

Why Do Plants Wiggle? Scientists Solve Age-Old Mystery That Puzzled Charles Darwin

Why Do Plants Wiggle? Scientists Solve Age-Old Mystery That Puzzled Charles Darwin

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Physicists have discovered that the chaotic movements of growing sunflowers, known as “circumnutations,” help the plants search for sunlight, leading to efficient ...

Scientists Discover Why “Earth’s Twin” Has Almost No Water

Scientists Discover Why “Earth’s Twin” Has Almost No Water

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines ...

Nighty-Night or Not Quite Right? Unpacking the Melatonin Craze Among the Young

Nighty-Night or Not Quite Right? Unpacking the Melatonin Craze Among the Young

Health
Sarah Carter

A study from the University of Colorado Boulder indicates that nearly one in five children and preteens use melatonin for sleep, with ...