University of Colorado at Boulder
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
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
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
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 ...