Talal Al-Khatib

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Space & Innovation

When we think about aging, we often consider the aesthetic implications of the inevitable march of time, such as graying hair or wrinkled skin.

How Food ‘Age' Affects Lifespan — and Why Eating Less Could Mean Living Longer

Mind

Health

We all understand the feeling of being moved, an intense, uplifting mood where we find meaning through experiences like hearing a great song or taking in a stunning painting.

LSD Helps Explain How Our Brains Assign Meaning to Experience

After taking a dose of the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a user typically undergoes a hallucinogenic experience that can last half a day or more, depending on dosage and drug tolerance.

Here's Why LSD Trips Last So Long

Biotech

If there were such a thing as a cancer silver bullet, it would be something that only targets those cells in your body that have gone rogue, while leaving the rest of you unharmed.

Experimental Cancer Treatment That Terminates Rogue Cells Could Arrive in 2017

History

Earth & Conservation

The Biggest Solved and Unsolved Mysteries of 2016

Time only flows in one direction, but the same doesn't necessarily hold true for the aging process, finds a new study in which scientists successfully reprogrammed cells in mice in order to roll back the clock.

How Reprogrammed Cells Gave Old Mice New Youth

Medicine

Drugs are one of our primary vehicles against a wide swath of diseases and conditions, and now a study published in the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery has provided a map for the mechanisms by which these drugs work and their targets.

This Comprehensive Drug Map Reveals the Course of Future Therapies

Before starting the day, most everyone checks the weather to see what to expect outside.

Pollution Meter Sounds Crowd-Sourced Alarm Over Filthy Air

Anyone who grew up in the United States know the story of the first Thanksgiving.

'First Thanksgiving' Was Actually Not the First

As Tech Takes Jobs, Govts Debate Guaranteed Income

Tens of millions of Americans are heading to the polls today.

Election 2016: How Exit Polls Predict the Winner

In two days, voters will decide the next US president, but in elementary, middle and high school classrooms across the country, the votes have already been cast and counted.

Talal’s Recent Articles

How Food ‘Age' Affects Lifespan — and Why Eating Less Could Mean Living Longer

Aging at the cellular level depends on a wide array of factors — including diet. New research is focusing on factors that could help extend life.

LSD Helps Explain How Our Brains Assign Meaning to Experience

A study on the psychedelic drug offers insights into the neurological underpinnings of meaningful experiences.

Here's Why LSD Trips Last So Long

New analysis shows how the drug LSD locks onto a brain cell's serotonin receptor, producing a psychedelic experience that goes on for many hours.

Experimental Cancer Treatment That Terminates Rogue Cells Could Arrive in 2017

CAR T-cell therapy, a cutting-edge immunotherapy technique, is engineered to target cancer at a cellular level.

The Biggest Solved and Unsolved Mysteries of 2016

Hobbits were established to NOT be human, we learned what killed off an ancient, giant ape, but we still don't know what caused the "Wow!" signal nor what happened to Malaysian Flight 370.

How Reprogrammed Cells Gave Old Mice New Youth

Aging isn't a one-way street, finds a new study in which aged mice had their youthfulness restored.

This Comprehensive Drug Map Reveals the Course of Future Therapies

When it comes to drug research, the best way to know where you're going is to understand where you've been.

Pollution Meter Sounds Crowd-Sourced Alarm Over Filthy Air

Londoners were recently warned to keep their babies inside. Here's the app that offered the heads-up.

'First Thanksgiving' Was Actually Not the First

The idea of a feast of thanks certainly wasn't invented by the settlers at Plymouth.

As Tech Takes Jobs, Govts Debate Guaranteed Income

For basic income advocates, the time is now. For everyone else, as new tech takes over old jobs, it might be soon enough.

Election 2016: How Exit Polls Predict the Winner

Exit polls can provide a glimpse of who the next president will be well before the final votes are counted.

In Mock Elections, Who Wins the Student Vote?

Students have chosen between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in mock elections across the country, an exercise that encourages political engagement into adulthood.