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Can Talk Therapy Help People Who Are Unable to Experience Joy?
Researchers are developing new treatments for a depression symptom called anhedonia-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Plants Dominate the Planet's Biomass
About 80 percent of the Earth's biomass is plant life, with humans about equal to krill way down the heft chart. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Molecular switch detects metals in the environment
(Université de Genève) A team led by researchers from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, has designed a family of molecules capable of binding to metal ions present in its environment and providing an easily detectable light signal during binding...
How ugly marital spats might open the door to disease
(Ohio State University) Married people who fight nastily are more likely to suffer from leaky guts -- a problem that unleashes bacteria into the blood and can drive up disease-causing inflammation, new research suggests.
Engine test for NASA’s heavy-lift SLS rocket cuts off early, but achieves goals
News Brief: NASA put a developmental model of the RS-25 engine for its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket through a hot-fire test today at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine in attendance. Although the rat...
Scientists get new tool to track new pathogen killing frogs
(University of Central Florida) An undergraduate researcher has developed a method to screen frogs for an infectious disease that has been linked to mass die-offs of frogs around the world. Thanks to her method, scientists will be able to track the d...
Warming Is Worsening Wildfires, But Not Everywhere or Every Time
Human development patterns can be a larger influence on blazes in some places-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Studying Climate Change in One of the Grandest Classrooms in the World
If I could, I’d bring politicians who doubt the reality of human-caused global change to spend a few days on the Juneau Icefield-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Study: What patients really think about opioid vs non-opioid medications for chronic pain
(Regenstrief Institute) A new study investigates pre-existing perceptions about pain medications by individuals with chronic pain and how these perceptions relate to patients' experiences with these medications. The study found that, despite str...
Artificial placenta created in the laboratory
(Vienna University of Technology) TU Wien (Vienna) has now produced an artificial placenta model that very closely resembles the natural organ. Using a specially developed femtosecond laser-based 3D printing process, it is possible to produce customi...