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Science & Nature Early maniraptoran dinosaurs (alvarezsaurs and therizinosaurs) had extraordinary claws of mysterious function. The post Study: Giant Therizinosaurs Used Their Meter-Long, Sickle-Like Claws...

Science & Nature Astronomers have captured and analyzed visible and near-infrared reflectance spectra of large and dark asteroids located in the mid-outer main asteroid...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As legislation in multiple states eases former restrictions around medical and recreational cannabis in the United States, an increasing proportion of the population reports use of the drug. Between 2016 and 2018, more than 22 percent of Massachusetts residents reported any prior cannabis use for medical or recreational reasons. However, little

Science & Nature Scientists from New York University and Stanford University have tested 11-month-old infants and state-of-the-art learning-driven neural-network models on the Baby Intuitions...

Science & Nature Scientists have scoured the genomes of hundreds of modern humans from around the world and four groups of ancient human ancestors,...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two classes of drugs prescribed off-label for some patients with type 1 diabetes can provide significant benefits, but also come with health concerns, according to a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers. The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, provide a rare view of real-world use

The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by processes under its floating ice shelf that are different than researchers realized. Two papers published in the journal Nature provide a clearer picture of the changes taking place under the glacier, which is the size of Florida and is one of

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sleep irregularity—chronically disrupted sleep and highly variable sleep durations night after night—may increase the risk for atherosclerosis, according to a study led by Kelsie Full, Ph.D., MPH, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The multicenter study, reported Feb. 15 in the Journal of the American Heart Association, followed 2,032 older, racially and