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July 2, 2025
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July 2, 2025 — Locked-down Hungarians who gained or lost pets saw almost no lasting shift in mood or loneliness, and new dog owners actually felt less calm and satisfied over time—hinting that the storied “pet effect” may be more myth than mental-health ...
July 2, 2025 — Macquarie University researchers reveal that chlorothalonil, still commonly sprayed on American and Australian produce, cripples insect fertility by more than a third at residue levels typically ...
July 2, 2025 — Illinois engineers fused ultrafast imaging with smart algorithms to peek at living brain chemistry, turning routine MRIs into metabolic microscopes. The system distinguishes healthy regions, grades ...
July 1, 2025 — Over a thousand students revealed a striking link between lactose intolerance and nightmare-filled nights, hinting that midnight stomach turmoil from dairy can invade dreams. Researchers suggest simple diet tweaks—especially ditching late-night ...
July 1, 2025 — Researchers reviewing nearly 300 top-tier ADHD drug trials found that half skipped the rigorous, expert-led evaluations needed to rule out other conditions like depression or schizophrenia. With diagnoses often made by unqualified staff—or even by ...
July 1, 2025 — Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using spatial molecular imaging to map immune activity down to the cellular level. They discovered early signs of rejection within 10 ...
June 30, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a surprising sugar-related mechanism inside brain cells that could transform how we fight Alzheimer’s and other dementias. It turns out neurons don’t just store sugar ...
June 30, 2025 — Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that the rare strain Mycobacterium lepromatosis haunted the Americas millennia before Europeans arrived. Armed with ...
June 29, 2025 — Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in mice — key traits seen in autism. Researchers mapped how this genetic tweak throws off the brain's delicate balance of ...
June 29, 2025 — USC researchers have found a promising new brain scan marker that could better detect Alzheimer’s risk — but only for some. The tau-based benchmark works in Hispanic and White populations when paired with another Alzheimer’s protein, amyloid, ...
June 28, 2025 — Parts of New Orleans are sinking at alarming rates — including some of the very floodwalls built to protect it. A new satellite-based study finds that some areas are losing nearly two inches of elevation per year, threatening the effectiveness of ...
June 27, 2025 — Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the Earth — a geological heartbeat that could eventually split Africa in two. ...
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July 2, 2025 — Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged ...
July 2, 2025 — Female chimpanzees that forge strong, grooming-rich friendships with other females dramatically boost their infants’ odds of making it past the perilous first year—no kin required. Three decades ...
July 2, 2025 — Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of the body in animal ...
July 2, 2025 — Researchers testing urine from 2- to 4-year-olds in four U.S. states uncovered 96 different chemicals, many of them unmonitored and linked to hormone ...
July 1, 2025 — Teen vaping is changing fast — and not in a good way. A large national study found that more adolescents are vaping THC, CBD, and especially ...
July 1, 2025 — A sweeping review of more than a century’s research upends the popular notion that left-handers are naturally more creative. Cornell psychologist Daniel Casasanto’s team sifted nearly a thousand ...
July 1, 2025 — Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...
June 30, 2025 — Scientists have discovered a stealthy mechanism that cytomegalovirus (CMV)—the leading infectious cause of birth defects in the U.S.—uses to infiltrate blood vessel cells while evading immune ...
June 30, 2025 — An AI system called iSeg is reshaping radiation oncology by automatically outlining lung tumors in 3D as they shift with each breath. Trained on scans from nine hospitals, the tool matched expert ...
June 30, 2025 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies ...
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June 29, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts, ...
June 28, 2025 — A groundbreaking study from the University of Auckland and Chalmers University of Technology is offering new hope for spinal cord injury patients. Researchers have developed an ultra-thin implant ...
June 27, 2025 — Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter, they’re secretly stashing 65 million tonnes of carbon far below ...
June 27, 2025 — Researchers in Japan created an AI that can detect fatty liver disease from ordinary chest X-rays—an unexpected and low-cost method that could transform early diagnosis. The model proved highly ...
June 30, 2025 — Researchers at UT Arlington have discovered a key enzyme, IDO1, that when blocked, helps immune cells regain their ability to properly process cholesterol—something that breaks down during ...
June 30, 2025 — Smoke from wildfires and structural fires doesn t just irritate lungs it actually changes your immune system. Harvard scientists found that even healthy people exposed to smoke showed signs of immune ...
June 30, 2025 — Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally set, controlled fires—can significantly lessen their impact. By ...
June 29, 2025 — India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising ...
June 29, 2025 — Researchers are using an advanced brain imaging method called MEG to understand why Parkinson’s drug levodopa doesn’t work equally well for everyone. By mapping patients’ brain signals before ...
June 28, 2025 — A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...
June 28, 2025 — A team of researchers has turned ordinary yeast into tiny, glowing drug factories, creating and testing billions of peptide-based compounds in record time. This green-tech breakthrough could ...
June 27, 2025 — Biological drugs have been a game-changer for people with severe asthma, helping them breathe easier and live more comfortably. But researchers at Karolinska Institutet have uncovered a surprising ...
June 27, 2025 — The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area of the full moon in one shot. Over the next ten years, this cosmic giant ...
June 27, 2025 — A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ...
June 27, 2025 — At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...
June 27, 2025 — Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller than your fingernail. That’s the power of a new quantum-enabled ...
June 27, 2025 — Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly ...
June 26, 2025 — Swap steaks for spinach and you might watch the scale plummet. In a 16-week crossover study, overweight adults who ditched animal products for a low-fat vegan menu saw their bodies become less acidic ...
June 26, 2025 — Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s worth of chipmunk and vole specimens from Chicago, researchers ...
June 26, 2025 — Hot tubs don't just feel great, they may actually outperform saunas when it comes to health perks. A study found that soaking in hot water raises core body temperature more than dry or infrared ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025
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Friday, June 27, 2025
- Tiny Creatures, Massive Impact: How Zooplankton Store 65 Million Tonnes of Carbon Annually
- AI Sees What Doctors Miss: Fatty Liver Disease Hidden in Chest X-Rays
Monday, June 30, 2025
- Scientists Discover ‘off Switch’ Enzyme That Could Stop Heart Disease and Diabetes
- Fire Smoke Exposure Leaves Toxic Metals and Lasting Immune Changes
- Fighting Fire With Fire: How Prescribed Burns Reduce Wildfire Damage and Pollution
Sunday, June 29, 2025
- Scientists Just Reconstructed Half the Neanderthal Genome—thanks to Indian DNA
- Brain Scan Breakthrough Reveals Why Parkinson’s Drugs Don’t Always Work
Saturday, June 28, 2025
- Record-Breaking 10-Billion-Year Radio Halo Just Rewrote the Universe’s Origin Story
- Scientists Turn Beer Yeast Into Mini Factories for Smart Drugs
Friday, June 27, 2025
- Why Asthma Often Comes Back—even With Powerful Drugs
- World’s Largest Camera Just Snapped the Universe in 3,200 Megapixels
- These 545-Million-Year-Old Fossil Trails Just Rewrote the Story of Evolution
- This Breakthrough Turns Old Tech Into Pure Gold — No Mercury, No Cyanide, Just Light and Salt
- Self-Lighting Chip Uses Quantum Tunneling to Spot a Trillionth of a Gram
- One Shot, Game Changed: How RAVEN Captured a Petawatt Laser and Supercharged Fusion Research
Thursday, June 26, 2025
- Acid-Busting Diet Triggers 13-Pound Weight Loss in Just 16 Weeks
- Skull Study Shows Chicago's Rodents Are Rapidly Evolving
- Hot Tubs Outperform Saunas in Boosting Blood Flow and Immune Power
- This Team Tried to Cross 140 Miles of Treacherous Ocean Like Stone-Age Humans—and It Worked
- Farming Without Famine: Ancient Andean Innovation Rewrites Agricultural Origins
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- Vitamin C Flips Your Skin’s “youth Genes,” Reversing Age-Related Thinning
- The Pleasure Prescription: Why More Sex Means Less Menopause Pain
- Quantum Computers Just Got an Upgrade – and It’s 10× More Efficient
Monday, June 30, 2025
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
- Why Cats Prefer Sleeping on Their Left Side—and How It Might Help Them Survive
- Can These Endangered Lizards Beat the Heat? Scientists Test Bold Relocation Plan
- New Test Unmasks Illegal Elephant Ivory Disguised as Mammoth
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- Scientists Reveal Your Morning Coffee Flips an Ancient Longevity Switch
- Martian Dust to Dream Homes: How Microbes Can Build on the Red Planet
- New Viruses Discovered in Bats in China Could Be the Next Pandemic Threat
- Mammals Didn't Walk Upright Until Late—here's What Fossils Reveal
- The Brain’s Sweet Spot: How Criticality Could Unlock Learning, Memory—and Prevent Alzheimer’s
- Inside the Tumor: AI Cracks Five Hidden Cell Types to Stop Cancer’s Comeback
- Scientists Reprogram Ant Behavior Using Brain Molecules
- 1. 7 Million Patients Reveal Stunning Link Between Semaglutide and Lower Dementia Risk
- The Molecule That Might Save Your Sight—and Your Heart
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- Mojave Lichen Defies Death Rays—could Life Thrive on Distant Exoplanets?
- Mining the Deep Could Mute the Songs of Sperm Whales
- Wildfires Threaten Water Quality for Up to Eight Years After They Burn
- Ancient Carbon ‘burps’ Caused Ocean Oxygen Crashes — and We’re Repeating the Mistake
- Killer Whales Use Seaweed Tools in Never-Before-Seen Grooming Behavior
- USC's New AI Implant Promises Drug-Free Relief for Chronic Pain
Monday, June 23, 2025
- No Kings Buried Here: DNA Unravels the Myth of Incestuous Elites in Ancient Ireland
- Recycled Plastic Is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet
- This Triple-Layer Sunlight Catalyst Supercharges Green Hydrogen by 800%
- Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Hurting workers—It Might Be Helping
- From Cursed Tomb Fungus to Cancer Cure: Aspergillus Flavus Yields Potent New Drug
Sunday, June 22, 2025
- The Common Blood Test That Predicts How Fast Alzheimer’s Hits
- Superbugs in Your Shrimp: Deadly Colistin-Resistance Genes Ride on Imported Seafood
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
- What the Universe Tried to Hide: The 21-Centimeter Signal Explained
- Breakthrough Magnet Design Could Transform MRI and Magnetic Levitation
- Half of Today’s Jobs Could vanish—Here’s How Smart Countries Are Future-Proofing Workers
Friday, June 20, 2025
- Scientists Create Living Building Material That Captures CO₂ from the Air
- Gravity, Flipped: How Tiny, Porous Particles Sink Faster in Ocean Snowstorms
- The Atlantic's Chilling Secret: A Century of Data Reveals Ocean Current Collapse
- Diabetes Drug Cuts Migraines in Half by Targeting Brain Pressure
Saturday, June 28, 2025
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Friday, June 20, 2025
- Iron Overload: The Hidden Culprit Behind Early Alzheimer’s in Down Syndrome
- Photon-Powered Alchemy: How Light Is Rewriting Fossil Fuel Chemistry
- Frozen in Time: Transparent Worms Keep Genes in Sync for 20 Million Years
- Scientists Create ‘universal Translator’ for Quantum Tech
- Cold Sore Virus Hijacks Human Genome in 3D--and Scientists Found Its Weak Spot
- Hidden Carbon Giants: Satellite Data Reveals a 40-Year Arctic Peatland Surge
- Flash Floods in the Alps: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Summer Storms
- Fitness Trackers Are Failing Millions — This Fix Could Change Everything
- Self-Esteem Skyrockets 131% After Weight-Loss Surgery, Study Reveals
Thursday, June 19, 2025
- How Life Endured the Snowball Earth: Evidence from Antarctic Meltwater Ponds
- Thinking AI Models Emit 50x More CO2—and Often for Nothing
- Microscopic Heist: How Lung Bacteria Forge Weapons to Steal Iron and Survive
- Massive Thread of Hot Gas Found Linking Galaxies — and It’s 10 Times the Mass of the Milky Way
Monday, June 30, 2025
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Friday, June 27, 2025
- NASA Discovers Link Between Earth’s Core and Life-Sustaining Oxygen
- Only 3 Years Left: The Carbon Budget for 1. 5 °C Is Almost Gone
- Parkinson’s May Begin Decades Earlier — and Your Immune System Might Know First
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
- 99 Trials Later, Fasting Ties Traditional Diets in Weight-Loss Showdown
- Invisible Quantum Waves Forge Shape-Shifting Super-Materials in Real Time
- AI at Light Speed: How Glass Fibers Could Replace Silicon Brains
- One Shot to Stop HIV: MIT's Bold Vaccine Breakthrough
- The AI That Writes Climate-Friendly Cement Recipes in Seconds
- How Can We Make Fewer Mistakes? US Navy Invests $860k in Placekeeping
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
- You Hear the Beep, but Can’t Find the Car: The Hidden Flaw in Electric Vehicle Safety
- Defying Darwin: Scientists Discover Worms Rewrote Their DNA to Survive on Land
- Winter Sea Ice Supercharges Southern Ocean’s CO2 Uptake
- A Thousand Colors, One Galaxy: Astronomers Reveal a Cosmic Masterpiece
- AI Sniffs Earwax and Detects Parkinson’s With 94% Accuracy