PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In the longest-term study so far to track people with body dysmorphic disorder, a severe mental illness in which sufferers obsess over nonexistent or slight defects in their physical appearance, researchers a…
Scientists trying to get a grip on the arms race between plant-eating insects and the defenses put up by their hosts just got a boost from new research by a University of Arizona entomologist published in the early view edition of Molecular Ecol…
Doing well in school and feeling accepted by your peers are both important challenges during adolescence. Sometimes these don’t fit well together, as when teens are ostracized for being smart. A new study has found that such pressures differ for tee…
For scientists, supernovae are true superstars — massive explosions of huge, dying stars that shine light on the shape and fate of the universe.
For a brief burst of time, supernovae can radiate more energy than the sun will emit in its life…