Treatments ranging from music to poetry to visual arts still have not undergone rigorous scientific testing. Artists and brain scientists have launched an initiative called the NeuroArts Blueprint to change that.
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Scientists use drones to count Chukchi Sea walruses without disturbing them
U.S. and Russian scientists are using less invasive technology to get a more complete survey of the walrus population in the Bering Strait region.
Mercury levels in Stellar sea lion pups are rising. Researchers look to the past to find out why
A new research project is building a timeline of mercury levels in the Aleutian Islands over the last few thousand years.
Why NASA’s new space telescope is pointed at the Big Dipper
Cooling the telescope to about minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit will let it see objects that are far more distant and faint than what the Hubble telescope can see.
Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns to Antarctica to resupply American scientists
Each year, the crew maneuvers the nearly 400-foot, 13,000-ton icebreaker to cut a channel to McMurdo Station, the U.S. Antarctic Program’s logistics hub.
Alaska permafrost thaw is clue in mystery of Arctic methane explosions
Arctic methane explosions — and the scientists who love to study them — are the focus of the newest episode of the public television program Nova.
A piece of space junk the size of a school bus is barreling straight toward the moon
It will be the first time — that we know of — humans have accidentally crashed something into the lunar surface.
NASA scientists estimate Tonga blast at 10 megatons
Even three days after the blast, Tonga remains largely cut off from the world. Undersea communications cables appear to have been cut, and the airport is covered in ash, preventing relief flights from arriving at the capital city of Nuku’alofa.
The eruption near Tonga was so powerful you could hear it in Alaska
Hours before tsunami waves arrived, sounds from the eruption reached Alaskans from Juneau to the Aleutians.
Past heat waves and low sea ice continued to impact Alaska’s waters in 2021
Forage fish, some seabirds and humpback whales in Prince William Sound all seemed to see declines related to warm temperatures. Herring, on the other hand, thrive in warmer water.