Drinking alone foreshadows future alcohol problems
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University found that drinking alone during adolescence and young adulthood strongly increases risk for alcohol use disorder...
Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Pain by Separating it from the Self
For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but neuroscientists have only recently been able to test...
Robochop makes garden trimming a snip – Horizon Magazine Blog
Automation and computer-aided designs are seeding the future of home gardens. With the onset of designer gardens as a service and rose-pruning robots,...
What Comes After the Higgs Boson
Ten years ago this week, two international collaborations of groups of scientists, including a large contingent from Caltech, confirmed that they had found...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots rocket impact site on moon
Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later...
Next-generation data centers within reach thanks to new energy-efficient switches
Data centers — dedicated spaces for storing, processing and disseminating data — enable everything from cloud computing to video streaming. In the process,...
Air quality – Air Quality Matters
Contrary to what you may think, the word “quality” when paired with the word “air” doesn’t always connote, or isn’t always connected necessarily...
Novel gene for Alzheimer’s disease in women identified
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia, affecting more than 5.8 million individuals in the...
Space – the greener frontier – is good for business – Horizon Magazine Blog
What benefits can people expect from European space commerce in the near future?
Space is the new technological revolution, and it is changing the...
How vertebrate jaws first evolved
Five-hundred million years ago, it was relatively safe to go back in the water. That’s because creatures of the deep had not yet...
