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Hand-feeding squirrels accidentally changed their skulls

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​science news​​​ By Bethany Brookshire     Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, →

How child soldiers heal after the trauma of war

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​science news​​​ By Elizabeth Quill     For more than two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt has followed the lives of children (now adults) who returned home after being forced to →

AI could transform health care, but will it live up to the hype?

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​science news​​​ By Meghan Rosen and Tina Hesman Saey     The U.S. health care system is rife with problems — as many Americans have experienced firsthand. Access to quality care →

How people suppress memories may be key to PTSD recovery

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders     Recovery from PTSD comes with key changes in the brain’s memory system, a new study finds. These differences were found in the brains of 19 →

California wildfire season should be over. So why is L.A. burning?

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​science news​​​ By Nikk Ogasa     Unusually dry conditions and hurricane-force seasonal winds are fueling multiple fast-moving and destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County. →

Hallucinogens approved for treating psychiatric disorders: what does the science say?

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​conversation​​​ by  Florian Naudet     Once sidelined in the 1970s, psychedelic substances – ranging from esketamine (a ketamine derivative) and psilocybin (the active →

Velvet ants have the Swiss Army knife of venoms

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​science news​​​ By Amanda Heidt     Few creatures can tangle with a velvet ant and walk away unscathed. These ground-dwelling insects are not ants, but parasitic wasps known for →

A major new neutrino experiment is nearing completion

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     Physicists are putting the finishing touches on the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or JUNO, which will delve into the secretive →

Here’s why some pigeons do backflips

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​science news​​​ By Tina Hesman Saey     Atoosa Samani started learning about pigeon genetics at a young age. She grew up surrounded by pet pigeons in Isfahan, a city in central →

Scientists are building underwater neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean

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science news By Emily Conover     Deploying a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a league of its own. On a ship bobbing in the →

Eyelashes’ special features help fling water from the eyes

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     Next time you’re caught in the rain, thank your eyelashes for keeping your vision clear.     Experiments with human →

In rural America, heart disease is increasingly claiming younger lives

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nbc news By  Simar Bajaj     When Ephraim Trembly found his brother in rural Maryland, John had already been dead for three days.      According to their →

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