The US Preventive Services Task Force says for the first time that adults under the age of 65 should be screened for anxiety, according to a draft recommendation posted on Tuesday.

More than 47,000 people in the US who died of suicide last year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- one death every 11 minutes.

We've previously posted about the 1951 case of Edward Harrison who accidentally killed himself when he swung his golf club against the golf cart in anger.Below are two more examples of the same phenomenon.Clearly, think twice before taking out your frustration on your

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BreathlessDavid QuammenSimon & Schuster, $29.99When COVID-19 burst onto the global stage in 2020, it was deadly and disruptive. In the first weeks of January, researchers identified the cause: A coronavirus was to blame, a relative of the virus that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak.

Raquel Welch dances in a silver bikini to a jazzed up version of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" — since Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey forever made that piece synonymous with space travel.The clip is from Raquel!, a 1970 CBS television special.

Source: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 17 Feb 1949, Thu Page 21

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died.

Three scientists jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for their work on quantum information science.

A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest.

The history behind why you endure “sexy Freddy Krueger” outfits each October.

Tests of quantum weirdness and its potential real-world applications have been recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics. At some level we are all subject to quantum rules that even Albert Einstein struggled to come to terms with. For the most part, these rules

A kind of teenager mosquito can suddenly shoot its head forward from its body — stretching its neck into a skinny cord — to bite into another youngster. And that’s just one of the ways young mosquitoes kill other mosquitoes, a new study shows.Over

Though humans’ nearly hairless bodies stick out like a cowlick among other primates, our nakedness isn’t unique in the world of mammals. Dolphins and whales are naked, says biological anthropologist Tina Lasisi of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. There are naked

It’s no revelation that sea levels are rising. Rising temperatures brought on by human-caused climate change are melting ice sheets and expanding ocean water. What’s happening inside Earth will also shape future shorelines. Jacky Austermann is trying to understand those inner dynamics.A geophysicist at

Growing up in Brazil, Marcos Simões-Costa often visited his grandparents’ farm in the Amazon. That immersion in nature — squawking toucans and all — sparked his fascination with science and evolution. But a video of a developing embryo, shown in his middle school science

A long-sought “holy grail” in cryptography is poised to change the way we protect sensitive information.Today’s standard encryption schemes take an all-or-nothing approach. Once scrambled, your data become inaccessible to anyone without the secret key.This has allowed for secure e-mail communication, the proliferation of

The first Polish language dictionary (published in 1746) included definitions such as: “Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is.”