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Brief, intensive exercise helps patients with panic disorder more than standard care ( www.frontiersin.org )

A key technique of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder is interoceptive exposure, where patients learn to tolerate the physical effects of panic attacks through repeated simulated exposure. Now, scientists have shown in a randomized controlled trial that brief intermittent intensive exercise is more effective at ...

Frontiers | Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing ( www.frontiersin.org )

Introduction: The global human population is still growing such that our collective enterprise is driving environmental catastrophe. Despite a decline in average population growth rate, we are still experiencing the highest annual increase of global human population size in the history of our species—averaging an additional 84 ...

‘Built for cutting flesh, not resisting acidity’: sharks may be losing deadly teeth to ocean acidification ( frontiersin.org )

A leading cause of a rising pH value in the world’s oceans is human CO2 emission. As more CO2 is released into the atmosphere and absorbed by the oceans, the water becomes more acidic. This poses problems for many organisms – including sharks, a new study showed. Scientists incubated shark teeth in water with pH levels that ...

Specialty of the house: Neanderthals at two nearby caves butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions ( www.frontiersin.org )

Neanderthals lived in the nearby caves of Amud and Kebara between 50 and 60,000 years ago, using the same tools and hunting the same prey. But scientists studying the cutmarks on the remains of their prey have found that the two groups seem to have butchered their food in visibly different ways, which can’t be explained by the ...