Meghan Cliffel was eight months postpartum from the birth of her second daughter when she began hallucinating. It was a Friday in 2015 and she had just finished her workday in New York City. She became convinced that people were following her, she thought she was being recruited for a cult, and she thought the
How people interpret touch can vary by background, but the areas on the body where people feel ticklish were found to be consistent across cultures.Credit: d3sign/Getty Ticklishness is a distinct, specialized body sensation, and how people experience it seems to be consistent across cultures, two neuroscientists have found. The study, published on 10 August in
Source and culture conditions of NextGen cancer models The source of each of the NextGen models is provided in Supplementary Table 1. In brief, breast cancer organoid models were derived by the laboratories of A.V.L., S.O. and D.L.S. Most of the NextGen CNS tumour models were derived by the laboratory of K.L.L. Colorectal and oesophagus–stomach
Beneath the Earth On the surface there is an extraordinary underground network of fungi of almost unimaginable scale. An international team of researchers has produced, for the first time, a global map of this vast network of mycorrhizae, the system of fungal filaments that form mutually beneficial associations with plants around the planet. They estimate