I’ve never given much thought to reading speed, except to assume that an increased vocabulary and training your eyes to read lines at a time helped. What I didn’t know was that speed is fairly independent of language, and that there are three kinds of reading concepts.
The first is “serial” reading, where the eyes go [...]

This kind of gene therapy could transform the lives of the elderly and people with muscular dystrophy. Unfortunately, it is also a dream come true for an athlete bent on doping. The chemicals are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts and are only generated locally in the muscle tissue. Nothing enters the bloodstream, so officials will [...]

Neither a placebo procedure in patients nor tryptophan depletion in healthy volunteers triggered the mood and brain activity changes. Brain scans revealed that a key emotion-processing circuit was overactive only in patients in remission — whether or not they had re-experienced symptoms — and not in controls. Since the abnormal activity did not reflect mood [...]

The United States’ nuclear atmospheric tests involving military personnel are described from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the Eniwetok Cleanup of 1977-1980.
There are over 500 photos from the recently declassified DOE atomic test films. You can even order Atomic test videos on the site. Over 2500 files (stories, pictures and documents) are posted.
Atomic Veterans [...]