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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a new psychotherapy method used to treat people’s past trauma — or the painful symptoms caused by distressing experiences. But unlike a regular psychotherapy treatment, the healing process with EMDR is much shorter. Plus, you don’t have to talk extensively about or relive your traumatic experiences. What Is EMDR Therapy and How Does It Work? EMDR...

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Have you seen the “planetary parade” after sunset? It’s getting a lot of media attention, partly because Jupiter is about to sink into the Sun’s glare and ruin it, but you can glimpse some to all of the five planets naked-eye and with binoculars on any night this week. Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars are all visible right after sunset. Get somewhere high...

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. Researchers in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, were able to capture upward discharges of lightning from a distance of about 150 yards with a device that records 40,000 images a second.Marcelo Saba and Diego Rhamon Benjamin Franklin invented lightning rods in the 18th...

Last November, after a decade of failed attempts, David Smith, a self-described shape hobbyist of Bridlington in East Yorkshire, England, suspected that he might have finally solved an open problem in the mathematics of tiling: That is, he thought he might have discovered an “einstein.” In less poetic terms, an einstein is an “aperiodic monotile,” a shape that tiles a plane, or an infinite...

Next week the brightest planet and the seventh planet from the sun will appear very close to each other in the post-sunset night sky. Venus has been rising into the twilight sky since December 2022 and is now about 36º above the southwest horizon as soon as it gets dark, as seen from the northern hemisphere. That’s about as high as it ever reaches....

A massive dust storm over Mongolia and China is revealed in magenta tones in this screenshot from a timelapse animation of Himawari-9 satellite imagery acquired on March 21, 2023. Please see below for the timelapse itself. (Credit: CIMSS Satellite Blog) Were it not for the labels and national borders, the image above might easily be mistaken for an abstract expressionist painting. But it is,...

Topline High blood pressure can damage the same regions of the brain that are linked to dementia and declines in mental processes, according to a study published Monday, directly tying the two serious medical conditions for the first time. Key Facts Prior to this study, researchers had causally linked high blood pressure with changes in the brain, but a paper published Monday in the...

Topline Researchers have developed a new omega-3 fatty acid that could potentially stave off visual declines in Alzheimer’s patients, according to a new study published Monday, though there is still no cure for the debilitating disease, which affects nearly 6 million Americans. Key Facts Researchers at the University of Illinois, Chicago, developed an omega-3 fatty acid called docosahexaenoic acid, which they say can cross...