Here’s another question: Have you ever had a migraine? Roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population, more women than men, gets migraines. If you’ve never had one, you’re lucky.Those two questions aren’t totally random, we swear. According to Bloomberg News, the chemical reaction of getting capsaicin (the heat-causing ...

Imagine if your biggest health problem could be solved with the flip of a switch. Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) offers such a dramatic recovery for a range of neurological illnesses, including Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and major depression. Yet the metal electrodes implanted in the brain are too bulky to ...

By Dana Hunter |January 24, 2013|Until the summer dry season comes, things in the Pacific Northwest are perpetually wet. Edward Smith and his companions, camped 18 kilometers (11 miles) north of Mount St. Helens, had set their tent on its side to dry out. At 8:32 am, an ...

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View the Small Wonders Slide Show Image: Anatoly I. Mikhaltsov/ Children’s Ecological and Biological Center A stained-glass spiral of cells from an aloe plant, an old-growth forest of neural cells in the retina of a mouse, a starry sea of leaf hairs on a garden shrub—organisms have a ...