Scientists Can Now Watch Ketamine Reshape a Depressed Brain in Real Time
A PET imaging study reveals how ketamine changes receptor density across specific brain regions, offering the first clear map of why the drug works so fast.
Casey Cooper·
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9,500 Years Ago, a Community in Malawi Cremated One Woman. Nobody Knows Why.
The oldest known cremation in Africa, discovered at Mount Hora, reveals a ritual so elaborate it rewrites our understanding of Stone Age communities and their relationship with death.
Casey Cooper·
The Hell Heron: How a Blade-Crested Spinosaur Is Rewriting Dinosaur History
A 95-million-year-old predator with the tallest head crest of any dinosaur has been found deep in the Sahara, far from any ancient ocean.
Casey Cooper·
Fusion Reactors Might Accidentally Create Dark Matter
A new theoretical method shows that the ITER fusion reactor could produce detectable axion-like particles as a byproduct, offering a cheaper path to solving one of physics' biggest mysteries.
Casey Cooper·
Twisted Magnets: The New Magnetic State Hidden in Atom-Thin Crystals
Rotating ultra-thin chromium iodide layers by a fraction of a degree created a magnetic state never seen before, hosting stable skyrmions.
Casey Cooper·
CRISPR's New Trick: Gene Drives That Disarm Superbugs From the Inside
UC San Diego researchers have built a CRISPR-based system that spreads through bacterial populations and strips out antibiotic resistance genes, turning superbugs back into treatable infections.
Casey Cooper·
The Universe May End in a Big Crunch
New dark energy data from two hemispheres suggest our cosmos has a 33-billion-year lifespan, with a dramatic collapse already baked into the physics.
Casey Cooper·
CAG-170: The Invisible Gut Bacteria That Keep Showing Up in Healthy People
A global study of 11,000 people across 39 countries found a mysterious group of bacteria, invisible to traditional science, that consistently appears in healthy guts and vanishes in sick ones.
Casey Cooper·
The Chemistry of Falling in Love
When you fall in love, 12 brain regions conspire to flood your system with dopamine, hijacking the same neural circuits as addiction. Here's what's really happening.
Casey Cooper·
The Great Oxidation Event: When Life Nearly Destroyed Itself
2.4 billion years ago, cyanobacteria flooded Earth with a toxic gas called oxygen, triggering the planet's first mass extinction and making complex life possible.
Casey Cooper·
A Spiny Dragon Rewrites What We Know About Dinosaur Skin
A 125-million-year-old dinosaur from China preserves skin at the cellular level, revealing hollow spikes unlike anything seen in the fossil record. The find redefines how we picture these animals.
Casey Cooper·
The Moon's Biggest Scar Just Rewrote Lunar History
Samples from the far side of the Moon, collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission, reveal a 4.25-billion-year-old impact that challenges decades of accepted science about the solar system's violent past.
Casey Cooper·