Before Saying Yes to the Medical Test, Know the Risks and Benefits
(Maria Fabrizio for WPLN and KFF Health News) When Lori Baute first learned about precautionary full-body MRI scans,…
Even as Earth’s oceans warm, one spot has gone cold
agriculture: The growth of plants, animals or fungi for human needs, including food, fuel, chemicals and medicine. Atlantic:…
Doctors Should Keep an Eye on Your Mix of Medication. If They Don’t, You Should.
Medications can snowball as we age. Pill organizers pile up. Prescriptions that are no longer necessary can mix…
Are major ocean currents moving to turn Earth into a snowball?
arXiv: A website that posts research papers — often before they are formally published — in the fields…
How sea slugs get their flashy colors
birds: Warm-blooded dinosaurs with wings that first showed up at least 150 million years ago. Birds are jacketed…
Teens invent first chewing gum to tackle anxiety
adolescent: Someone in that transitional stage of physical and psychological development that begins at the onset of puberty,…
Pokémon Go players helped build new maps of cities
In your hometown, you can glance at a building or landmark to orient yourself. A new computer system…
Lehigh men’s tennis concludes season
The Lehigh men’s tennis team concluded its season Sunday after participating in the Patriot League Championships at the…
Greece braces for the economic fallout from the Iran crisis
Nikos Vettas, John Psaropoulos, and Yiannis Tsakalos join Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at how…
Space dreams meet planetary facts
At 11 a.m., the foyer of the New Digital Planetarium filled with middle school students, arriving at the…
Animals experience joy. Scientists want to measure it
Citations S.L. Winkler et al. Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter. Scientific Reports. Published online June…
Energy may seem to disappear, but there’s a law against that
atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains…