Plaque in the arteries develops due to various factors, including diet, weight, exercise, blood pressure, and cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Following a healthy diet, losing weight, exercising, ...

The Smackover Formation, spanning from Central Texas to the Florida Panhandle, is North America’s leading lithium brine resource. The Smackover’s lithium concentrations are comparable to those in the ...

This animation shows the dynamic process of how a coral atoll forms. Corals (represented in tan and purple) begin to settle and grow around an oceanic island forming a fringing reef. It can take as ...

Mix it all together, and you’ve got a hurricane—maybe. Even when all these factors come together, a hurricane doesn’t always develop. Hurricanes are powerhouse weather events that suck heat from ...

Pattern formation is the developmental process by which cells acquire different identities, depending on their relative spatial positions within the embryo. Pattern formation ensures that tissues and ...

Christian Formation supports formation ministries of congregations and faith communities. We connect leaders with resources and practices that inspire fresh ways of thinking about the forming of faith ...

Our Solar System is only one example of a planetary system. Thousands of other systems have been discovered, and most look very different than Earth and its sibling planets. Understanding planet ...

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snakes in the world, are best known for the way they catch and eat their food. The snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize prey, and then coils its ...

Everything you’ve ever seen or experienced on Earth was once a nebulous collection of floating gas and dust. Science is starting to understand how those particles came to take the forms you recognize ...

Build a simple optical imaging model in Python and study how an ideal point source becomes a point spread function (PSF), and how that PSF changes real images. The ...