29 October, 2018

Prisoners with HIV often achieve viral suppression because of strict medication schedules. A new study shows that fewer than half of prisoners remained in treatment 3 years after they were released from prison, and retention in care actually improves when they are re-incarcerated.


76% of participants receiving MDMA-assisted psychotherapy did not meet PTSD diagnostic criteria at the 12-month follow-up, results published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology


4-12% of what is now the western United States would burn each season prior to arrival of European settlers.


A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change finds that if Bitcoin is implemented at similar rates at which other technologies have been incorporated, it alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by 2°C as soon as 2033


Astronomers have witnessed, in the finest detail ever, the slow death of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy, which is gradually losing its power to form stars


A new study from an international team of researchers is pushing back the origins of chocolate. The study suggests that cacao—the plant from which chocolate is made—was domesticated, or grown by people for food, around 1,500 years earlier than previously thought


A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded which provides a new benchmark for monitoring biodiversity across Canada’s northern expanses.