A supplement named NeuroActiv6 claims to improve brain function and may improve conditions ranging from ADHD to depression. This article reviews the science behind these claims and discusses how the ingredients might help brain health.
Continue ReadingEssential oils, ‘natural’ supplements, and home remedies abound, especially during a pandemic. But can any of them actually enhance your ability to fight infection?
Continue ReadingA guide to understanding what it really means when you hear that a developing drug is “in the pipeline”.
Continue ReadingIn honor of women’s history month, this article is about women’s health. Ladies, our hormones are our superpower, it’s so important to understand our cycle and the pros/cons of birth control. Men, if you have a woman in your life that you care about (partner, mother, daughter, niece, friend), learning more about women’s health will help you support her to be the strongest, healthiest version of herself.
Continue ReadingWhen you’re stressed and frustrated, you might actually just be experiencing fear. That’s thanks to the amygdala for protecting and defending us, but there are steps you can take to prevent yourself from being in a constant state of cortisol-infused fear.
Continue ReadingThe best source of renewable energy has been living in your fish tank this whole time. Here are the top 5 reasons that algae is the answer to our biofuel needs.
Continue ReadingScientists identified over 100 genes that may be associated with snoring.
Continue ReadingWhat classifies an organism as living? New classes of viruses may blur the line between what is living and what is not.
Continue ReadingHave you ever done most of the work but got none of the credit? Stigler’s law of eponymy shines light on the battle between the discoverers and namesakes.
Continue ReadingAge restrictions on the purchase of recreational drugs are continuing to strengthen. What’s the science behind this age limits, and are these measures really necessary?
Continue ReadingThe sex differences in autoimmune diseases have yet to be clearly understood. A new hypothesis called the pregnancy compensation hypothesis attempts to pull in many factors to better explain why we see these differences between males and females.
Continue ReadingWhile COVID-19 scare is still going on, this article focuses on the bats that have started it all – Why the bats are able to withstand viruses that make humans sick?
Continue ReadingI would like to show the comparison of the recent outbreaks of the coronavirus so the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918. I want the reader to see the need of public health policy and the potential outcomes when its not implemented properly
Continue ReadingIt seems that in this polarizing era, two things unite us: our preference for more equality and our ignorance of the scale of current inequality.
Continue ReadingCancer research discovery makes undruggable Ras druggable.
Continue ReadingHow have creatures as simple as microbes managed to colonize every corner of the world, resist our weapons against them, and eat electricity? Turns out, they’re ridiculously good at evolution.
Continue ReadingScientists are at odds about the limits of life in the volatile terrain of Dallol, Ethiopia.
Continue ReadingMy article is about the chemical reactions involved with baking cookies. I walk through the major processes to explain the chemistry of cookies.
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