You see a local Clemson pond teeming with bright green algae that flourishes from border to border and you think to yourself, “I love that our freshwater ecosystems are doing so well… loads...

Believe it or not, you are what you eat. According to articles recently published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology and Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, your gut is comparable to a second brain....

The actor Dustin Hoffman once said, “The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.” When it comes to red-footed boobies, Mr. Hoffman is only half right. One thousand...

According to the CDC, someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds, equating to more than 795,000 cases a year. The National Stroke Association reports that 40% of stroke patients will experience...

Sleep has many benefits that are widely known, but did you know it can also help you remember new information for long periods of time? In a 2019 article published in Science Advances, L. Himmer and colleagues...

Stereotypically, some men are notorious for claiming they “never get sick.” However, their own genetic material may soon prove them wrong. Research has shown that males on average experience...

The skin is the body’s largest organ, and it’s also the one that takes the most abuse. Daily the skin is subject to the sun’s harmful rays, pollution, dirt, and many other damaging substances....

How much does your food cost? The resources required to feed almost 8 billion people are damaging to the environment. A 2018 study published in Science, by Dr. J Poore and colleagues, highlights the true...

Deterioration of cognitive capabilities is a normal part of aging, especially in the case of attention. But, is it possible that physical and mental exercises might slow down or even reverse nature’s...

Our lives are governed by plastics. Every sip of your coffee, every mile you drive, and every pill you swallow are all deeply connected to plastic. Now, plastics may even affect the marine biodiversity....

Hemispherectomy is a rare, radical surgery in which a cerebral hemisphere is removed in order to treat the most extreme of epilepsy cases. Neurosurgeons turn to this invasive treatment after typical epilepsy...

Most people are familiar with the concepts of one dimension, two dimensions, and three dimensions, known as1D, 2D, and 3D, respectively. Few people can stretch their imagination to understand 4D. But,...