Medicine & TechnologyVincent Van Gogh, the Dutch post-impressionist behind The Starry Night painting, reportedly suffered from two episodes of delirium after experiencing alcohol withdrawals in the hospital.
About five million years ago, the West Coast of South Africa saw its share of dangerous mammals - wolverines, bears, saber-tooth tigers - and now, a small carnivore related to the modern honey badger.
Aerial strategies using remote-controlled drones reduce the risks of ground-based measurements of volcanic emissions, maintaining real-time data transmission in these potentially dangerous environments.
Financial markets are complex structures, even after attempts to rationalize them. An MIT Sloan professor offers an insight into how its quirks and behaviors work.
"Lazarus taxon" refers to a species that disappears for a time - either from the fossil records or directly believed to be extinct - only to return at a later time.
With the practice of wearing masks and regular disinfection becoming the norm in the middle of the global coronavirus pandemic, developing and improving masks have become a point of interest in the scientific community. Now, researchers have fabricated a chemically-altered facemask that can "deactivate" pathogens such as the novel coronavirus.
A team of scientists and engineers demonstrated a novel approach that could enable humans to control electronic gadgets - by inserting electrodes through the veins.
A new study suggests that prehistoric algae, marine plant life that lived alongside the dinosaurs, managed to survive the extinction event that killed the large reptiles - by learning how to eat other living beings.