A Brief 100-Year History of Santa Fe Indian Market
The annual event has survived draconian governmental policies to become the country’s largest public Native American arts and cultural gathering.
Do ‘behavioral psychedelics’ help patients make lasting, positive change?
Psychedelics may find new, legitimate roles in treatment for anxiety, depression, stress disorders, addiction, and other mental and behavioral health problems. But ensuring they do requires developing rigorous, standardized methods to study and apply t…
Novel theory of entropy may solve materials design issues
A challenge in materials design is that in both natural and humanmade materials, volume sometimes decreases, or increases, with increasing temperature. While there are mechanical explanations for this phenomenon for some specific materials, a general u…
Trial testing cocoa flavanol supplement shows promise for reducing cardiovascular risk
The first large-scale trial to test the long-term effects of a cocoa flavanol supplement to prevent cardiovascular disease offers promising signals that cocoa flavanols could have protective cardiovascular effects.
Even with statins, high triglycerides may increase risk of second stroke
Stroke can have many causes. An atherothrombotic stroke is caused by a clot that forms from plaques that build up within blood vessels in the brain. A new study suggests that people who have this type of stroke who also have higher levels of triglyceri…
Scientists identify neurons in the brain that drive competition and social behavior within groups
In mice, social ranking in a group was linked to the results of competition, and certain neurons in the brain stored this social ranking information to inform decisions. Manipulating the activity of these neurons could increase or decrease an animal’s …