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A study by researchers at The Ohio State University confirms what most of us know about weight loss: Increased exercise and a healthy diet are the keys

A popular tool for identifying meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks.

Houston-based plant enthusiasts with large collections describe how over-collecting and...

May 25, 2021 at 11:00 am It’s an attractive idea: By playing online problem-solving, matching and other games for a few minutes a day, people can improve such mental abilities as reasoning, verbal skills and memory. But whether these games deliver on those promises is up for debate. “For every study that finds some evidence, there’s an equal number of papers that find no evidence,” says Bobby Stojanoski, a cognitive neuroscientist at Western University in Ontario ( SN: 3/8/17; SN: 5/9/17). Now, in perhaps the biggest real-world test of these programs, Stojanoski and colleagues pitted...

April 19, 2021 at 6:00 am Whether they’re made of methane on Saturn’s moon Titan or iron on the exoplanet WASP 76b, alien raindrops behave similarly across the Milky Way. They are always close to the same size, regardless of the liquid they’re made of or the atmosphere they fall in, according to the first generalized physical model of alien rain. “You can get raindrops out of lots of things,” says planetary scientist Kaitlyn Loftus of Harvard University, who published new equations for what happens to a falling raindrop after it has left a cloud in the April Journal of Geophysical ...