The United States has experienced major increases in opioid overdose deaths involving the veterinary sedative xylazine.
Continue ReadingAdvances in innovative, sustainable, and equitable science is rooted in cultivating environments that allow all trainees to thrive. To continue to normalize abusive and exploitative academic practices while dismissing trainees from historically excluded and minoritized backgrounds with the sentiment that “you grow through what you go through” is comparable to attributing a poor harvest to droughts while actively salting the earth.
Continue ReadingLooking behind the scenes of the recent breakthrough in nuclear fusion.
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Continue ReadingFruits are generally thought to be healthy for you, but grapefruits can cause complications with certain medicines.
Continue ReadingAn overview of the science behind pregnancy and abortion legislation.
Continue ReadingThis article investigates the neuroscience of music, including melody, tone, pitch, and rhythm, as well as how the ear processes sound.
Continue ReadingEarly embryonic hearts are the first functioning organ in embryos, playing a critical role in development, but don’t resemble the mature four-chambered organ we might imagine. Some anti-abortion legislation hinges on the term ‘fetal heartbeat’ to describe early cardiac activity when neither a fetus nor a chambered heart exist.
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Continue ReadingAs the number of people suffering from depression continues to rise, scientists are starting to look at alternate methods of treatment. One of these methods is the use of psilocybin, the active compound in “magic mushrooms” as part of a new approach to help treat the disorder.
Continue ReadingCapsaicin, or the spice molecule, has far more function and benefit than just causing you to break a sweat. It can contribute to a longer and healthier life and now we know why.
Continue ReadingA mining town in Sweden is home to more chemical discoveries than any other place on Earth.
Continue ReadingAir travel is a major source of CO2 emissions. Let’s learn about the part that sustainable aviation fuels can play and their current outlook!
Continue ReadingWhat can a failed prophecy teach us about the mind and our inability to amend our beliefs in the face of new evidence?
Continue ReadingWhether you’re prescribed lithium or not, it’s entering your body through environmental exposure, mostly through your drinking water. What is lithium and what can it do to us?
Continue ReadingScientists recently discovered a new peptide that inhibits a disease-protein by recruiting it to an intracellular protein shredder. This peptide shows proof of concept for a potential class of drugs that act by degrading misbehaving proteins in the body.
Continue ReadingTulips and Peruvian Lilies wield the compound tulipalin A as a defense mechanism, making them toxic to pets and a source of dermatitis in humans. This article reflects on the history of tulipalin A and the research aiming to repurpose this compound for our benefit.
Continue ReadingTo give the female body a place at the table, under the microscope, at the bench, and in a white coat at the bedside is to restore, in some part, her bodily autonomy and assert that she is equally deserving of her universal, indivisible, and interdependent human right to health.
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