Topline Having better sleep habits—like sleeping for seven to eight hours each night—could improve overall health and decrease the likelihood of an early death, according to data released Thursday, as researchers say just under 10% of all deaths can be attributed to poor sleep patterns. Key Facts Researchers from the American College of Cardiology analyzed […]

Reptiles have long been considered to be dim-witted and cold-blooded (in more ways than one), but research is beginning to find that they possess an impressive collection of cognitive abilities. For example, a recent study of Tokay geckos, Gekko gecko, has discovered that these lizards can distinguish their own scent from that of others of […]

People with anxiety often come to therapy complaining of a specific and extreme form of worrying. They ask questions like: “If my partner does not reply to me the second I text them, I always assume that the worst might have happened. How do I manage this habit?” “I cannot stand the thought of failing […]

A disruptive new planet-hunting technology, now under study as part of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, could literally detect and then look for biosignatures from every Earth 2.0 within a thirty-light-year radius of our solar system. Known as DICER (The Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver), the key to this NIAC study’s revolutionary means of […]