A high school student in Massachusetts found himself in a tough spot after being held by immigration officials. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, an 18-year-old from Brazil, was on his way to volleyball practice when he was stopped and taken into custody. This happened because his father was the real target o
Hydra, a small freshwater animal, has a basic nervous system. It does not have a brain, but it can still do things like eat. Scientists are studying how Hydra's nerve cells connect and work together. They call this process self-assembly. It means that nerve cells organize themselves into working gro
In the quest to understand how people make decisions that affect their health, researchers have explored a fascinating concept called episodic future thinking. This is where people vividly picture future events to influence their current behaviors. For instance, someone might imagine how they will f
In 2010, a new way to think about food was born in Brazil. This system, called Nova, sorts food into four main groups. It looks at how much a food has been changed from its natural state. Some foods are hardly changed at all. Others go through a lot of processing. The most changed foods are called u
The moon has always been a big deal, and recently, two spacecraft set off from Florida to make their mark on the lunar surface. One of them, Blue Ghost, made it there in just a few months and even managed to land upright, which was a big win. The other spacecraft, Resilience, is taking the scenic ro
Bryana Bongolan, a fashion designer, had a front-row seat to some disturbing behavior. She was close with Cassie, a singer who was once in a relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs. Bongolan witnessed some troubling incidents that involved Combs. She saw Cassie with a black eye and heard her friend's
The Phoenix Suns have a new leader on the bench. Jordan Ott, who was an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers, is taking over as the head coach. This move comes after a long search, where the Suns talked to many candidates. Ott beat out another Cavaliers assistant, Johnnie Bryant, for the job.
Tom Girardi, once a shining star in the legal world, has hit rock bottom. A federal judge handed down a sentence of seven years and three months in prison. Girardi was found guilty of stealing tens of millions of dollars from his clients. Many of these clients had suffered severe injurie
Japan is determined to speed up the availability of new cancer treatments. These treatments offer better outcomes than existing options. To make this happen, countries use special pathways to quicken the approval process. This is known as expedited approval. A study compared the speed of drug ap
The way people understand emotions changes as they grow up. This is especially true when looking at how secure or insecure people feel in their relationships. In the past, most studies focused on young kids. However, a recent effort looked at both teens and adults to see if there are shifts in how t
