Kratom is being advertised on convenience store windows, smoke shop signs, and gas station shelves across the U.S. What, exactly, has crept up on us in the past few decades — are opioids being sold at convenience stores?
Posts published by “Réka Weinacht”
Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a landscape of jagged spires, small mounds, and monumental towers is home to a community of microbes, snails, and crustaceans.
Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a massive system of currents that span the entire ocean from south to north in a vertical loop.
Way back in 1896, the Swiss scientist Rudolf Albert von Koelliker coined the term “axon” to describe the thin cable of a nerve cell that transmits electrical pulses away from the body of the cell.
Water. Cat. Pencil. Fear. Reward. Categories that exist inside the signal processing structure we call the human brain can range from concrete and tangible to amorphous and abstract.
Revealed in a paper from the journal Cell Biomaterials this past July, researchers at Duke University have had their first success with a new treatment approach for stroke patients.
The kea bird is a large parrot native to New Zealand, similar in size to a rabbit. This endangered bird has olive-green feathers and eats everything from roots and berries to land snails and insects.
Viktor Orbán, the heavily right-leaning politician who has served as the prime minister of Hungary for the past 16 years in a row, was defeated in a landslide election on Sunday, April 12.
The April-May allergy season is a familiar roll-around for anyone who grew up in the Northeastern United States. Sitting by an open window in a classroom, trying to take an exam while your eyes water so much that you can’t see the exam question.
Alzheimer’s Disease, the most common cause of dementia, is a progressive disease that mostly affects individuals aged 65 and over.