Science

Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese martial art involving sequences of slow controlled movements meant to cultivate one of the three kinds of vital energy, called qi, was found to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disorder in 147 seniors. Patients who already had the debilitating disorder and who took up Tai Chi…

A chance social media post by an eagle-eyed amateur astronomer sparked the discovery of an explosive collision between two giant planets, which crashed into each other in a distant space system 1,800 light years away from planet Earth. The confidence he had in what he saw led to an international team…

An international team of scientists has documented the largest solar storm to have ever struck the Earth, hidden inside the trunks of ancient trees. Such a massive storm today on the scale of the newly discovered one would cause total disruptions to global technology and infrastructure, from power transformers to satellites,…

A Swedish woman named Karin has become the first person to ever receive a below-the-elbow prosthetic that fuses bone with metal and electrodes. An incredible feat of robotics and biology, it’s seen to represent an eventual gold standard of prosthetics and has encouraged the interdisciplinary science team to believe it will…

It has long been hypothesized that humans arrived in North America while the last Ice Age was beginning to wane perhaps between 13,000 and 16,000 years ago, but after rigorous study and debate a new dating method for a set of fossilized human footprints found in White Sands, New Mexico shows…

The perfect synchronicity of a classical symphony has the power to similarly synchronize the movement, heart rate, breathing rate, and the electrical conductivity of skin between audience members, The beautiful finding comes from a study of 132 people and three classical pieces: Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Op. 104 in C minor,” Brett…