Author name: Shelley Larkin

As anyone seeking to lose weight knows, diets come in and out of fashion. The Sexy Pineapple diet, launched by a Danish psychologist in 1970, never really took off. Kellogg’s no longer promotes the Special K diet, which swaps out two meals a day for a bowl of the breakfast cereal of that name. These

Time Spent in Nature Can Be Good—and Sometimes Bad— for Your Brain A “Goldilocks” measure of green space might help stave off dementia, but an excess could lead to cognitive decline By Teresa Schubert edited by Gary Stix There’s nothing like a good walk through your local park to unwind and release stress from a

Shark Sounds, Molecules on Mars and Continued Federal Cuts Cuts to federal health and science agencies continue. Plus, we discuss the sounds of sharks, the meaning of Martian molecules and one big dino claw. By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Anaissa Ruiz Tejada/Scientific American Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science

Everyone dies, but what actually transpires during that process is a deep mystery that scientists are only beginning to seriously investigate. Increasingly, near-death experiences, or NDEs, are part of that growing field. An incredible 5 to 10 percent of the general population reports memories of an NDE. Oftentimes, people’s recollections are similar: perceiving separation from