Nobody understands exactly how to harness the placebo effect, but once again scientists have demonstrated its almost unbelievable power. The latest example comes in the areas of endurance and obesity. Scientists genotyped […]
Mind over matter
Saving babies
After much lobbying by citizens of Seward, a small town at the head of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, an effort is underway to rescue two orphaned grizzly bear cubs that have become a city […]
Together apart
Commentary Homo sapiens male and female are members of a singular species separated by gender. Science is only beginning to find out how separated. Scientists in Sweden have now documented a big […]
Alaska’s dying moose
The 49th state’s long run of what some thought might be the new normal of global warming is over. The old normal is back with snow and cold, and there are indications […]
