This key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web is threatened by warming oceans, study finds

New research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up.

Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges in Oklahoma case

Authorities say a Texas megachurch founder has pleaded guilty to lewd and indecent acts with a child after he was accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the 1980s in Oklahoma while he was a traveling minister. Sixty-four-year-old Robert Preston Morris entered the pleas Thursday before a judge in Oklahoma under a plea agreement. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Morris received a 10-year suspended sentence with the first six months to be served in jail. Drummond said the abuse began in 1982 when the victim was 12 and Morris was staying at her family's home in Hominy, Oklahoma. Morris resigned as senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, after the accusations were made public.

Frontiers | The mutually reinforcing dynamics between pain and stress: mechanisms, impacts and management strategies

While distinct, pain and stress share complex biological and psychological mechanisms that—despite their protective functions—can lead to clinically maladapt...

Stress and weight gain: The connection and how to manage it

Stress is a normal reaction to everyday pressures. However, chronic stress can cause physiological changes in the body, which can lead to weight gain.

Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Senescence Link?

Chronic stress has been shown to promote numerous aging-related diseases, and to accelerate the aging process itself. Of particular interest is the impact of stress on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia. The vast majority ...

Stress and Cancer

Police in Northern California stop driverless Waymo taxi after illegal U-turn

Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. But without a driver behind the wheel, they could not issue a moving violation ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote up the weekend encounter in social media posts that have gone viral. Police said that their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.” State law requires moving violations be issued to drivers or operators. A new state law that kicks in next year will allow law enforcement to report moving violations to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Waymo is owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet.