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March 23, 2026

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Mar. 4, 2026 A sweeping new study reveals that what’s on your plate may directly shape the pesticides circulating in your body. Researchers found that people who eat more fruits and vegetables known to carry higher pesticide residues—such as strawberries, ...

Deaths of Despair Were Rising Long Before Opioids

Dec. 20, 2025 Long before opioids flooded communities, something else was quietly changing—and it may have helped set the stage for today’s crisis. A new study finds that as church attendance dropped among middle-aged, less educated white Americans, deaths ...

America Is Throwing Away the Minerals That Could Power Its Future

Sep. 18, 2025 America already mines all the critical minerals it needs for energy, defense, and technology, but most are being wasted as mine tailings. Researchers discovered that minerals like cobalt, germanium, and rare earths are discarded in massive amounts, ...

Nearly Five Million Seized Seahorses Just 'Tip of the Iceberg' in Global Wildlife Smuggling

May 28, 2025 Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, according to a new study that warns the scale of the trade is far larger ...

Landmark Report Reveals Key Challenges Facing Adolescents

May 20, 2025 Poor mental health, rising obesity rates, exposure to violence and climate change are among the key challenges facing our adolescents today, according to a global ...

Groundbreaking Device Instantly Detects Dangerous Street Drugs, Offering Hope for Harm Reduction

May 7, 2025 Groundbreaking device instantly detects dangerous street drugs, offering hope for harm reduction A portable device that instantly detects illicit street drugs at very low concentrations, thereby ...

Climate Change: Future of Today's Young People

May 7, 2025 Climate scientists reveal that millions of today's young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms under current climate policies. If global ...

Spanking and Other Physical Discipline Lead to Exclusively Negative Outcomes for Children in Low- And Middle-income Countries

May 5, 2025 Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional ...

Exposure to Extreme Heat and Cold Temperature Is Leading to Additional Preventable Deaths, New 19-year Study Suggests

May 4, 2025 Urgent action must be taken to reduce the ever-rising number of people killed by extreme temperatures in India, say the authors of a new 19-year study which found that 20,000 people died from ...

Data Collection Changes Key to Understanding Maternal Mortality Trends in the US, New Study Shows

May 1, 2025 A new study offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths ...

What If Mother Earth Could Sue for Mistreatment?

Apr. 21, 2025 The study highlights the transformative potential of the Rights of Nature, which views nature as a rights-bearing entity, not merely an object of regulation and subjugation by extractive industries. The Llurimagua case -- a dispute over a mining ...

Researchers Introduce a Brand-new Method to Detect Gunshot Residue at the Crime Scene

Apr. 16, 2025 Crime scene investigation may soon become significantly more accurate and efficient thanks to a new method for detecting gunshot residues. Researchers have developed the technique that converts lead ...

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Archaeologists Uncover Brutal Iron Age Massacre of Women and Children

Mar. 9, 2026 A prehistoric mass grave in Serbia reveals that more than 77 people—mostly women and children—were deliberately killed in a brutal act of violence about 2,800 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Satellites Are Exposing Weak Bridges in America and Around the World

Mar. 8, 2026 Satellites are giving scientists a powerful new way to watch over the world’s bridges. Using radar imaging, researchers can detect millimeter-scale movements that may signal early structural ...

Tiny Clump of Moss Helped Solve a Shocking Cemetery Crime

Mar. 6, 2026 A tiny piece of moss helped expose a cemetery scandal in Illinois, where workers allegedly dug up graves and resold burial plots. By identifying the moss and analyzing its chlorophyll to estimate its ...

Ancient Bones Reveal Chilling Victory Rituals After Europe’s Earliest Wars

Feb. 8, 2026 New evidence from Neolithic mass graves in northeastern France suggests that some of Europe’s earliest violent encounters were not random acts of ...

Science Finally Solves a 700-Year-Old Royal Murder

Nov. 14, 2025 Genetic, isotopic, and forensic evidence has conclusively identified the remains of Duke Béla of Macsó and uncovered remarkable details about his life, ancestry, and violent death. The study ...

This Forgotten King United England Long Before 1066

Sep. 24, 2025 Æthelstan, crowned in 925, was the first true king of England but remains overshadowed by Alfred the Great and later rulers. A new biography highlights his military triumphs, legal innovations, and ...

10 People Who Beat 8,000 Others to Become NASA Astronaut Candidates

Sep. 23, 2025 NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates who will train for missions to the Moon and Mars. Their selection represents a powerful blend of talent and ambition, fueling humanity’s next great leaps ...

Scientists Modeled Nuclear Winter—the Global Food Collapse Was Worse Than Expected

July 26, 2025 What would happen if a nuclear war triggered a climate-altering catastrophe? Researchers have modeled how such a scenario could devastate global corn ...

Cognitive Collapse and the Nuclear Codes: When Leaders Lose Control

July 17, 2025 A shocking study reveals that many leaders of nuclear-armed nations—including US presidents and Israeli prime ministers—were afflicted by serious health problems while in office, sometimes with ...

Why Monkeys—and Humans—can’t Look Away from Social Conflict

July 9, 2025 Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

Police Officers Face Twice the Risk of Traumatic Brain Injuries and PTSD, Survey Finds

Apr. 11, 2025 Police officers are more than twice as likely to have traumatic brain injuries compared to the general ...

Existing International Law Can Help Secure Peace and Security in Outer Space

Apr. 2, 2025 World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study ...

Avoidable Deaths Are on the Rise in the United States, Yet Falling in Many Peer Nations

Mar. 24, 2025 In most high-income countries around the world, the number of avoidable mortalities is going down. But in the United States, avoidable deaths have been on the rise for more than a decade, according ...

Why Some Are More Susceptible to Developing PTSD Symptoms Than Others

Mar. 5, 2025 People with a more active amygdala (an area in the brain involved in processing information relevant to threats) are more likely to develop PTSD symptoms after experiencing trauma than people with a ...

Research Indicates Effects of PTSD on Body Vary by Culture

Feb. 28, 2025 Anthropologists, social scientists and veterans are analyze the relationship between the hormones cortisol and testosterone and PTSD in a non-industrialized ...

Violence Alters Human Genes for Generations, Researchers Discover

Feb. 27, 2025 First study of its kind reveals epigenetic signatures of violence passesd to ...

New AI-Powered Tool Could Enhance Traumatic Brain Injury Investigations in Forensics and Law Enforcement

Feb. 26, 2025 A team of researchers has developed an advanced physics-based AI-driven tool to aid the forensic investigation of traumatic brain injuries ...

Rooftop Panels, EV Chargers, and Smart Thermostats Could Chip in to Boost Power Grid Resilience

Feb. 20, 2025 After a cyber attack or natural disaster, a backup network of decentralized devices -- like residential solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and water heaters -- could restore ...

New Study on Drug Checking: Trend Warnings and Alerts

Feb. 10, 2025 A new study analyses how other countries' drug checking services use and share data, as a way of helping Australia's policymakers decide what to do with ours. The researchers also spoke ...

'Marine Prosperity Areas' Represent a New Hope in Conservation

Feb. 6, 2025 An international team of researchers introduces a promising new initiative in marine conservation, dubbed 'Marine Prosperity Areas.' This science-informed effort goes beyond protecting ...

One in Four Chance Per Year That Rocket Junk Will Enter Busy Airspace

Feb. 5, 2025 There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of debris hitting an ...

Tigers in the Neighborhood: How India Makes Room for Both Tigers and People

Jan. 31, 2025 In India, tigers haven't just survived they're making a comeback. Despite a growing population and increasing pressure on their habitats, the number of wild tigers is rising. The reason? ...

A New Experimental System to Bring Quantum Technologies Closer to Students

Jan. 27, 2025 The world of quantum physics is experiencing a second revolution, which will drive an exponential leap in the progress of computing, the internet, telecommunications, cybersecurity and biomedicine. ...

Acoustic Sensors Find Frequent Gunfire on School Walking Routes

Jan. 6, 2025 A new study used acoustic sensors that detect the sound of gunfire to show how often children in one Chicago neighborhood are exposed to gunshots while walking to and from school. Results showed that ...

Advancing a Trustworthy Quantum Era: A Novel Approach to Quantum Protocol Verification

Dec. 19, 2024 The future of data security depends on the reliable application of quantum technology, but its widespread adoption requires rigorous verification. Researchers have developed a novel approach to ...

In Five Cancer Types, Prevention and Screening Have Been Major Contributors to Saving Lives

Dec. 5, 2024 Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study. The study ...

Strategies for Safe and Equitable Access to Water: A Catalyst for Global Peace and Security

Nov. 29, 2024 Water can be a catalyst for peace and security with a critical role in preventing conflicts and promoting cooperation among communities and nations -- but only if managed equitably and ...

Virtual Reality Could Be Gamechanger in Police-Civilian Crisis Encounters

Nov. 20, 2024 Traditional police training lacks practical tools for handling mental health crises, leaving officers underprepared. New research provides a promising avenue for addressing this gap using VR training ...

War Impacts the Function of Children's DNA and Slows Development

Nov. 20, 2024 Children living in war-torn countries not only suffer from poor mental health outcomes, but war may cause adverse biological changes at the DNA level, which could have lifelong health impacts, ...

Study Raises Concerns About the Climate Change and Global Conflict Crises

Nov. 20, 2024 Researchers are looking at the impact of climate change in communities affected by conflict and have found that many countries most impacted by these crises are being ...