Daily Archives: March 6, 2018
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Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE I never thought I’d be having this conversation with my wife. We’d recently learned that our beautiful, smiling two-year-old son Henry has a serious and lifelong genetic disorder. Henry has a variant of RETT Syndrome, a cruel condition that prevents his brain from controlling his […]
A dying worm experiences rigor mortis early in the death process, rather than after the main event as it is for humans, according to a new study.
Researchers have long known that RNA viruses called coronaviruses cause the common cold and pneumonia. In the last two decades or so, though, researchers have found that these viruses can jump between animal and human hosts. In recent years, coronaviruses have caused lethal outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) […]
If you’ve ever wondered how strenuous exercise translates into better endurance, researchers may now have your answer. Scientists have shown that the protein ERR? (ERR gamma) helps deliver many of the benefits associated with endurance exercise.
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s next sexual assault trial will last at least a month — twice as long as the last one, which ended in a hung jury. The Pennsylvania judge presiding over the case made the announcement during a pretrial hearing on Tuesday. He didn’t say why he […]