An inexpensive epilepsy drug can “switch off” autism, according to a new peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Led by Dr. Moritz Mall from the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research in Germany, researchers in the study found that the drug lamotrigine, which is sold under the brand name Lamictal, among others, was able to curb behavioral issues…

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. While scholars debate the timing of the rapture, the world has lost why this event is prophesied to occur in the first place—knowledge that was once understood by those in the first century. Today, researchers in the Middle East have rediscovered ancient…

BERLIN—Rescuers in Austria on Friday tried to reach three Polish researchers who got trapped when water from melted ice or snow entered the cave where they were working, authorities said. Officials in Salzburg said a rescue operation was launched late Thursday in the Lamprechtsofen cave near the village of St. Martin bei Lofer. Unusually warm…

WASHINGTON—Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Monday, another indication of how malicious software developed by governments can boomerang against their creators. Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware…

WASHINGTON—Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Feb. 22, in another indication of how malicious software developed by governments can boomerang against their creators. Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of…

LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Implementation of a nationwide mask mandate, combined with complementary public health measures, could reduce the coronavirus’ spread to essentially zero and have a potential $1 trillion impact on the U.S. GDP, according to University of California—Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health researchers. The team’s research “makes clear that even as vaccines…