Today, Sikiric and his team describe BPC-157 as an all-purpose healing compound. Laboratory experiments with animals and cell cultures, they write, suggest the peptide may treat everything from muscle ...

Last month, I was fortunate to participate in an event hosted by Open to Debate, a one-hour weekly program broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country, and the SNF Agora Institute ...

When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service, or NWS, to suspend weather balloon launches at its Kotzebue, Alaska, station earlier this year, a startup deploying next-generation weather ...

Each fall — always before Thanksgiving — Diane Johnson looks to the sky above her home, waiting for the moment when her birds return. “You look up, and they’re here,” she says. “And you remember how ...

Emma Chapman's "The Echoing Universe" is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out.

The Sackler family, owner of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, rose to infamy after investigations and lawsuits around their role in America’s opioid crisis began piling up in the 2000s. By advertising to ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

No wonder the European Marine Energy Center, one of the world’s leading agencies for developing and testing wave and tidal power technologies, chose to set up shop here; the nonprofit agency hosts ...

In the 2008 book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” behavioral economists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein popularized the idea that subtle social cues can effectively ...

For years, Ron Low took pride in his ability to give his wife multiple orgasms in a single sexual encounter. This was possible, in part, because his erections lasted up to an hour. By the age of 38, ...

Before the heat of the day set in, dozens of people were already gathered under a large banyan tree at the twice-weekly turmeric market in Ataikula, Bangladesh. The season for harvesting turmeric was ...