Millions Take Blood Pressure Drugs, but Many May Be Missing Their Heart-Protective Benefits
Blood pressure drugs can prevent heart attacks and strokes, but their prot…
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Red Meat Helped Build Humanity, Now It May Be Harming Us
Red meat may have helped shape the human species, but today’s appetite for it is takin…
Scientists Discover a Brain Signal Linked to Severe Suicidal Thoughts
P2RX7 may be linked to severe suicidal thoughts and recovery, but researchers still ne…
Sugary Drinks Linked to 145% Higher Risk of Gastric Cancer
Adults who drank sugar-sweetened beverages every day had a higher observed risk of gas…
Less Sugar Early in Life Linked to Lower Dementia Risk Decades Later
The study compared people born during and after sugar rationing in the United Kingdom …
Naked Comet Photobombs Public Telescope Image
An accidental Subaru Telescope image of a distant bare comet is giving astronomers a c…
Brain Cells Once Thought Protective May Actually Drive Cognitive Decline With Age
Age-related oligodendrocyte dysfunction may contribute to cognitive decline by disrupt…
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch: What it will study and how it compares to Hubble, Webb | Explained
NASA is launching the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to study dark energy and dark …
The Rare Vision Side Effect of Ozempic and Wegovy You Should Know About
Rutgers researchers say the risk is low, but patients should still be aware of the pos…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Could Map the Entire Sky With Hubble-Like Detail
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will combine a panoramic view of the cosmos with powerful…
Hidden Deep Beneath Mars, Scientists Find Evidence of a Vast Magmatic System
Mars may have built a surprisingly complex crust through large magmatic systems withou…
125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Fossil Reveals Astonishing New Secrets
Ultraviolet imaging of a 125-million-year-old crocodylomorph fossil has revealed unexp…
Bats Have a Secret Immune System Scientists Have Never Seen in Any Other Mammal
Vesper bats possess a second antibody gene system unseen in other known mammals, revea…
This New Molecule Could Transform How We Recover Gold From Electronic Waste
A new extraction molecule uses electricity to recover metals while sharply reducing th…
A Billion Years Before the Grand Canyon, a Giant Cliff May Have Stretched Across America
A new study suggests that the Grand Canyon’s oldest and deepest rocks were exposed by …
Blackbirds Somehow Know When a Snake Is Too Dangerous To Attack
Red-winged blackbirds largely avoided striking rattlesnakes while aggressively attacki…
Scientists Find a Clue to Making Brain Stimulation More Reliable
The brain’s activity immediately before stimulation may help predict its response and …
New “Invisible” Cell Therapy Could Provide Side-Effect-Free Diabetes Treatment
Testing in diabetic mice lowered blood sugar levels for more than 100 days. Transplant…
A 35,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Pelvis May Explain Why Men and Women Walk Differently
Why do men and women walk differently? A Neandertal pelvis from 35,000 years ago, when…
Dual Stem Cell Treatment Restores Vision in First Human Trial
A dual stem cell scaffold improved vision and eye surface scores in a small first-in-h…
Your Waist Size May Reveal More About Your Health Than You Think
A study found that the measurement performed nearly as well as an obesity definition b…
More Screen Time, Better Thinking? An 8-Year Study Finds a Surprising Link
Screen time was associated with better adolescent cognitive processing, while links be…
Dogs and Humans May Share a Surprising Biological Secret to Longevity
Dogs and humans may share surprisingly similar metabolic signatures linked to lifespan…
A 150-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Flight Mystery May Finally Have an Answer
Archaeopteryx may have taken off by using two or three powerful leaps to reach the spe…
Giant Crocodylians Ruled South America’s Ancient Food Chain
Fossil bite marks suggest giant crocodylians, especially Purussaurus neivensis, domina…
Astronomers Detect a Record-Breaking “Cosmic Laser” From 8 Billion Light-Years Away
MeerKAT has detected a record-breaking hydroxyl megamaser from a merging galaxy more t…
A 47-Year-Old Scientist Tracked Himself for Months – His Biological Age Fell to 32
Continuous tracking of one participant showed how metabolic and physiological health m…
Scientists Warn of a Nearly 400% Increase in Toxic Liver Injuries – One Common Drug Leads the List
U.S. poison centers have recorded a sharp long-term rise in liver injuries linked to m…
Earth-Like Worlds Could Have Formed Billions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought
Rocky planets may have gotten their start far earlier than anyone expected, almost as …
JWST Finds a “Star” 100 Billion Times Brighter Than Any Star Should Be
Something in the young universe is shining like a star that should not be possible. NA…
Something Mysterious Just Passed Between Earth and a Distant Star
A mysterious object dubbed Phoebe may be a primordial black hole from the early univer…
This Natural Gut Compound Could Point to Better Treatments for IBD
What if your next meal could help your gut defend itself? Your gut bacteria may be doi…
Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising in People Under 50? New Clues Point to the Environment
Epigenetic fingerprints may help explain how environmental exposures contribute to col…
Archaeologists Discover a Forgotten 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb – Now They’re Racing To Save It
A newly discovered Ramesside tomb near Luxor is revealing details about ancient Egypti…
Scientists Find Just 3 Minutes of Sprinting Can Transform Blood Chemistry
A few minutes of sprinting triggered a much larger immediate molecular response than p…
FDA-Approved Drug Shows Promise for Reversing Osteoarthritis Damage
Researchers at Yale have identified lacosamide, an FDA-approved medication, as a promi…
Scientists Identify a Surprising 129-Day Limit for Predicting the Weather
A new study suggests the atmosphere may retain enough information for weather to remai…
Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute
Researchers have demonstrated a quantum computation that appears to exceed the practic…
Taking the Stairs Could Cut Your Risk of Heart-Related Death by 39%
Regular stair climbing was associated with substantially lower risks of cardiovascular…
Has the Autism Spectrum Become Too Broad? Leading Scientist Warns of Hidden Consequences
Autism diagnoses have risen dramatically as definitions have expanded, but that shift …
Scientists Uncover New Clues to a Long-Standing Bonnethead Shark Mystery
Bonnethead sharks start life with pointed heads, but females undergo a striking transf…
Rewriting History: Researchers Uncover a Forgotten Amazon Civilization That May Have Housed 3 Million People
For nearly 1,500 years, the Aquiry civilization shaped southwestern Amazonia, and new …
New Museum Discovery Shows Evolution Keeps Reinventing the Seahorse
CT scans and DNA revealed that Australia’s rare sea muppets only look like seahorses a…
Scientists Discover Hermit Crabs Doing a Job No One Expected
A parasitic plant on a Japanese island has found an unlikely way to send its offspring…
Scientists Discover a 245-Million-Year-Old Reptile With Its Organs Still Preserved
An international research team examined a unique fossil from China that, for the first…
Scientists May Have Solved a Long-Standing Melanoma Treatment Mystery
With cancer treatment, when a drug is given may matter almost as much as which drug is…
“Entirely Surprising” – Scientists Have Found a Martian Meteorite Unlike Any Known Before
A meteorite found in Algeria has opened a rare window into nearly 2 billion years of M…
This Simple Measurement Could Expose a Hidden Diabetes Risk (And It’s Not Your Waistline)
A new screening method uses an unexpected body measurement to estimate diabetes risk w…
Where Were All the Tiny Dinosaurs? Scientists May Finally Have an Answer
For all their astonishing diversity, dinosaurs seem to have hit one evolutionary limit…
Humanity May Soon Have the Technology To Reach Other Star Systems
Tiny spacecraft riding beams of light could put humanity within reach of another star …
Mushroom Mystery: The Fungus That Makes People See Tiny Humans
A mushroom sold in markets and served in restaurants in Southwest China has an unusual…
A Human-Specific Gene May Help Explain Our Extraordinary Brainpower
The new findings could help explain what made the human brain unique during evolution.…
World’s First Heat-Powered Cooling System Turns Waste Heat Into Cold
Researchers have developed the world’s first heat-driven elastocaloric coo…
The Tukaram Mundhe effect: 3 doctors offer practical tips to spot and beat lying food labels
India already carries a heavy burden of non-communicable diseases linked t…
Millions Take Blood Pressure Drugs, but Many May Be Missing Their Heart-Protective Benefits
Blood pressure drugs can prevent heart attacks and strokes, but their prot…
World’s First Heat-Powered Cooling System Turns Waste Heat Into Cold
Researchers have developed the world’s first heat-driven elastocaloric coo…