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A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition provides evidence that eating eggs in moderation tends to reduce the risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in older adults. Consumption of eggs is associated with a lower risk of...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system

SciTech Daily

When wolves bring down prey in Yellowstone National Park, ravens often appear almost immediately. Long before the predators finish feeding, the birds gather nearby to grab scraps of meat. Their ability to locate fresh kills so quickly has...

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The “world’s oldest octopus” was actually a 300-million-year-old fossil impostor hiding its secret in tiny teeth. A fossil long celebrated as the world’s oldest octopus has now been revealed to be an entirely different marine animal. The...

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A 10-year follow-up of the FIDELITY trial, which was controlled with placebo surgery, found that partial meniscectomy does not improve patients’ symptoms or function. Partial meniscectomy, a procedure that trims a degenerated meniscus, is...

PsyPost

A recent study published in Psychology and Sexuality suggests that relational context and the frequency of sexual practices play a central role in the sexual satisfaction of people who engage in BDSM and kink. The research provides...

PsyPost

A recent study has found that specialized psychotherapy paired with doses of either LSD or psilocybin is associated with strong reductions in severe depression and anxiety. These mental health improvements emerged relatively quickly and...

The Guardian

After embarking on a trial of CAR T-cell therapy, actor Sam Neill announced he is cancer-free. Researchers are enthusiastic the therapies could be a major weapon in the battle against cancer Follow our Australia news live blog for latest...

Universe Today

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered ‘buckyballs’ in space, they’re back with stunning images and rich data generated by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The results of their study have revealed the cosmic origin...

SciTech Daily

The discovery could help make electronics faster and more energy efficient. Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have found a new way to change how a metal behaves electronically by controlling atomic-level interactions...

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The technology could support advances in high-speed communication systems, sensing tools, biological materials, and medical technologies. Researchers at McGill University have created a new device that produces phonons, which are particles...

Universe Today

You’re a long-necked Titanosaurs grazing the plains and chomping away on tree leaves about 100 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous in what would eventually become a future Starbucks location. You look up at the night sky and notice a...

PsyPost

A study examining cultural characteristics of infants’ behavior found that Korean and Japanese infants cry more when separated from their mothers and left alone in an unfamiliar room, compared to U.S. and Czech children. The paper was...

SciTech Daily

A team led by Professor Garrick Allen has recovered hidden text from 42 lost pages of Codex H, offering a rare glimpse into one of the most important early New Testament manuscripts. An academic team led by Professor Garrick Allen at the...

Universe Today

By the mid-20th century, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence would emerge as an established field of scientific research. The era witnessed the first experiments, and many of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of SETI...

PsyPost

Children who struggle to regulate their emotions at age seven are more likely to experience anxiety and depression throughout adolescence, even after accounting for pre-existing mental health difficulties, according to new research...

NPR Science

Brian Fennessy, new head of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, says his agency is 'trying to bring on additional aircraft and bring them on early,' and dismisses criticism of prevention methods. (Image credit: Joe Raedle)

STAT News

NEW YORK — No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No televised news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors. In the midst of a hantavirus outbreak that involves Americans and is making...

PsyPost

People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that...

SciTech Daily

An AI-powered blood test that analyzes DNA fragments could detect silent liver disease long before symptoms begin. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered liquid biopsy...

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A new experimental drug lowered blood pressure and sharply reduced signs of kidney damage in people with chronic kidney disease. Baxdrostat, an investigational pill designed to block production of the hormone aldosterone, showed...

SciTech Daily

Researchers have successfully regenerated skeletal and connective tissue, although the new tissue was not perfectly formed. The result demonstrates a critical step forward in limb regeneration. For centuries, scientists have viewed the...

PsyPost

A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that popular artificial intelligence chatbots tend to provide inappropriate or unhelpful responses when users type messages containing signs of psychosis. The findings provide evidence...

Science Focus

As much as we’d like to pretend otherwise, we’ve all been there. Sitting, straining, waiting for that satisfying plop – to no avail. If that’s you, there are plenty of ways to improve your time on the porcelain throne, such as adding fibre...

Universe Today

More than 300 million kilometres from the nearest mechanic, NASA's Curiosity rover found itself in a situation that would make any engineer break into a cold sweat. A rock got stuck to its drill and wouldn't let go. What followed was a...

Popular Science

Researchers studying copulation in mayflies pulled off a stunt worthy of the naughtiest ancient Greek myths. Just like Hephaestus used an unbreakable net to trap his wife Aphrodite and her lover Ares in the middle of their adulterous act,...

Science Blog

Teeth tell the truth. It’s one of the few things paleontologists can more or less rely on: rock-hard, slow-decay, chemically stubborn, teeth preserve the details of a life that softer tissues surrender in the first centuries of burial....

Singularity Hub

Artificial Intelligence AI Is Starting to Build Better AIMatthew Hutson | IEEE Spectrum “In 1966, the English mathematician IJ Good wrote that ‘an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about Rice's whales, and why this population that calls the Gulf of Mexico home is so endangered.

PsyPost

Why do people cling to hope when signals of romantic interest are mixed? Our new research suggests that sexual arousal may make signs of disinterest harder to recognize. “You’re attractive and smart, but I’m looking for something else.” I...

SciTech Daily

Your brain may build memory not by adding connections, but by cutting them away. The hippocampus is one of the brain’s most important regions for memory and navigation. It helps convert short-term experiences into lasting memories,...

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Scientists have discovered that urban sewers may be a surprisingly significant source of methane emissions. Methane ranks behind carbon dioxide as the world’s second most important greenhouse gas. The Climate and Clean Air Coalition...

Science Blog

The mouse twitches its whiskers. A fraction of a second later, its pupils begin to swell. Not from any flash of light, not from a sudden noise, but from something that looks, on the surface, like nothing at all. Rafiq Huda’s lab at Rutgers...

Science Blog

The obvious target, if you want to help someone stop smoking, seems like it would be the craving itself. Kill the desire, kill the habit. It’s the kind of logic that has driven decades of pharmacology aimed at the brain’s reward circuitry,...

Science Blog

It sits on a fingertip. Four millimetres by four millimetres, half a millimetre thick, sealed inside a sliver of light-blocking polyethylene because even ordinary room light would throw off the readings. The device looks, for all practical...

Science Blog

A phonon is absurdly small. The quantum of vibrational energy, the irreducible minimum of sound, it carries no mass and lives only briefly before dissolving back into the thermal noise of whatever material surrounds it. For quantum...

Science Blog

The livers were not supposed to be part of the experiment. Joshua Lipschutz and his team at the Medical University of South Carolina were studying something else entirely, running a mouse model of diabetic kidney disease, checking whether...

Science Blog

The relationship runs in both directions. That’s the part that keeps catching researchers off guard: not merely that premenstrual disorders and psychiatric conditions tend to cluster in the same women, but that each one predicts the other,...

Science Blog

Everything oncologists thought they knew about testosterone and cancer pointed one direction. The hormone suppresses the immune system, shields tumors from attack, makes things worse. Strip it away and patients do better. That logic held...

Scientific American

Mini models of the uterus lining give insight into mystery of how it is shed without scarring

Scientific American

Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled

Scientific American

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration can help people solve problems together

SciTech Daily

Crabs may owe their famous sideways walk to one evolutionary event that happened 200 million years ago. Researchers have uncovered new evidence about how crabs evolved their famous sideways movement, suggesting the unusual walking style...

PsyPost

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated. Scientists found that abdominal muscle contractions compress blood vessels connected to the...

Popular Science

Billions of stars illuminate the Milky Way. Down here on Earth, only about 6,000 stars are visible to the naked eye, but with the right camera, we can see tens of thousands more. The Milky Way Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the...

STAT News

During one of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent appearances on Capitol Hill, Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) brought up an unusual allegation: that in 2001, he collected a dead raccoon’s penis. The incident was first...

STAT News

Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the “First Opinion Podcast” interview with Will Flanary, aka Dr. Glaucomflecken. Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or...

PsyPost

A recent study published in the journal Nature Mental Health suggests that children exhibiting high levels of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder traits are more likely to experience psychological distress up into middle age. The...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic intervention – building a 130-kilometre-wide dam between the US and Russia

The Guardian

With the war on Iran, Ukraine, AI and climate breakdown increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war, the clock stands closer to midnight than ever before. So who decides how many seconds we have left – and can we buy ourselves more time?...