Military veterans are disproportionately affected by suicide, but targeted prevention can help reverse the tide

America’s military veterans make up about 6% of the adult population but account for about 20% of all suicides. That means that each day, about 18 veterans will die by…

How key results could influence health policy

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The results of some congressional races may foreshadow who will have outsize health policy influence in Congress next year. Congress will face decisions over whether to…

Scientists stir bizarre ‘supersolid’ matter for first time

Simulation of quantum vortices superimposed with experimental data. Credit: University of Innsbruck, Austria Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a “supersolid”—which is both…

How higher brain care score can improve brain health regardless of genetic risk

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A study, published in the journal Neurology has explored whether healthy lifestyle choices, measured by a Brain Care Score (BCS), can lower the risk…

Tech giants brace for AI revamp, antitrust pullback in Trump’s second term

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Silicon Valley is bracing for a vastly different relationship with the U.S. government as Donald Trump returns to the White House with promises to undo many…

Archaeologists reveal the Lady of Kölleda

Between 2017 and 2021, the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology (TLDA) conducted excavations in Kölleda, located in the district of Sömmerda, Germany. Archaeologists discovered a large settlement…

Examining how stellar threats impact the habitable zone of exoplanets

Starfish found in ceremonial offerings at Tula

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have found starfish in a ritual deposit at the Toltec site of Tula. Tula was first settled around 400 BC…

Healing, spiritual purposes found to drive many veterans’ use of psychedelics

Outcomes of canonical correlation analysis. ***pJournal of Psychoactive Drugs (2024). DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2024.2401977 Most U.S. military veterans who have used psychedelics reported in a recent study that they pursued the substances…

Blast furnace slag and fly ash create low-cost cement alternative