While December’s days get shorter and shorter as nightfall comes increasingly earlier, holiday lights nevertheless shine beautifully against its dark backdrop.
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The rituals you perform this holiday season may have a bigger impact on your mental health than you think. Whether you decorate for the holidays right when Thanksgiving ends or eat exactly 12 grapes at midnight on New Year, many of us rely on traditions.
A group of MIT physicists recently discovered that carbon stacked in a particular way behaves like an unconventional superconductor.
Superconductors are critical to current and future technological innovations.
Menopausal hot flashes have been compared to a “human furnace” and disruptive to daily life. Around 85%of women experience hot flashes during menopause, and symptoms may flare up even years later.
A new study published in Neuron suggests that the brain sustains damage from hypertension long before any measurable rise in blood pressure, upending previous assumptions and opening new avenues for early intervention.
For thousands of years, humans have used birds as a reliable form of communication, with the earliest known use of pigeons for delivering messages being in ancient Egypt, around 1350 BCE.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance rapidly, it becomes more important than ever to understand how the technology could connect to humans through human-centered design.
Archaeological work in the Xingu territory of Brazil is rewriting assumptions about civilization in the Amazon. Through decades of partnership between the Kuikuro people and Western researchers, evidence of a large, complex civilization in the Brazilian territory has emerged.
The first test image from the telescope in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has revealed a previously unnoticed trail of light that could give insight into both the history and abnormalities of the M61 galaxy.
Monte Sierpe, translated as the “serpent mountain,” is located in the Pisco Valley of Southern Peru. The “Serpent Mountain” is known for its thousands of precisely aligned holes to resemble the look of a snake.