Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Celiac disease is not a food allergy or intolerance. It’s an autoimmune disease that makes the body attack the small intestine if gluten (found in wheat,…
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Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal sacs
Here’s a great case of real life turning out to be stranger than fiction. From baby’s first storybook to sly adult graphic novels, the story we’re told is the same:…
Worsening allergies aren’t your imagination − windy days create the perfect pollen storm
Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way. One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for…
Teachers and librarians are among those least likely to die by suicide − public health researchers offer insights on what this means for other professions
Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries have much higher rates of suicide than the…
NASA takes possession of Orion for Artemis II moon mission
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin,…
Hours-long continuous lasing achieved using laser-cooled strontium atoms
The team’s experimental setup: Atoms are cooled and slowed inside a vacuum chamber, until they can be trapped in a lattice inside a cavity (black triangular cavity spacer in the…
What time is it on the moon? US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock
We are one step closer to getting a lunar time zone this week, as a bill passed out of the US House Science, Space and Technology committee directs the administrator…
Asia’s fossil-free future demands real transformation
Chuck Baclagon is the Asia regional finance campaigner for 350.org. Our continent is on fire. Not figuratively – literally. From record-breaking heatwaves across Central Asia to parched lands and collapsing…
ED visits for asthma spiked during 2023 Canadian wildfires, study finds
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels New research in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found an increase in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits across Ontario following heavy smoke in early June 2023.…
