Playing Surfaces Drive Exercise-Associated Muscle Cramps, New Research Suggests
Why athletes still get sudden muscle crampsExercise-associated muscle cramps—those abrupt, painful spasms that can force...
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Injured Cells ‘Vomit’ Waste to Revert to Stem-Like State, Speeding Repair — But Raising Cancer Risks
Discovery: Cells Rapidly Expel Waste to Reprogram After InjuryResearchers have identified a fast, dramatic waste-removal...
Metformin Linked to 64% Lower Long COVID Risk in Large UK Real‑World Study
A comprehensive retrospective analysis of primary care records in the United Kingdom indicates that the widely used, low...
Global Childhood Diabetes Nearly Doubles Since 1990, Driven by Rising Type 2 Cases
A new analysis of Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data covering 204 countries finds a sharp global rise in diabetes among...
Surgeons Rework a Glue Gun Into a Portable 3D Printer for On-the-Spot Bone Grafts
From DIY Tool to Surgical InnovationResearchers in South Korea have transformed a household glue gun into a compact, han...
Photon-like Electrons in Organic Compounds Reveal a Universal Quantum Magnetic Signature
Photon-like electrons and a new class of quantum materialsQuantum materials host exotic charge carriers that can behave ...
Hidden Bacterial Biofilms May Trigger Heart Attacks — Vaccines Could Offer Prevention
Infection as a Trigger for Myocardial InfarctionHeart attacks may be initiated by dormant bacterial communities embedded...
Newly Discovered Bone 'Switch' GPR133 and AP503 Compound Offer Promising Path to Preventing Osteoporosis
Discovery summary: a hidden receptor that controls bone strengthResearchers at Leipzig University have identified a prev...
Ocean’s Most Abundant Microbe, Prochlorococcus, Faces Sharp Decline as Seas Warm
A tiny organism, outsized roleThe ocean’s smallest photosynthesizing microbe, Prochlorococcus, is critical to global mar...
Could Life Survive Around Dead Stars? Habitable Worlds Orbiting White Dwarfs
When stars die, new possibilities ariseThe life cycle of a Sun-like star ends not with a dramatic supernova but with a s...
Deep Layers Exposed: Keck Spectrum Reveals Silicon, Sulfur and Argon from a Stripped Supernova
Rare spectrum uncovers a star’s inner shellsFor the first time, astronomers have observed the chemical fingerprints of a...
Appendix Cancer Is Rising in Younger Adults: What Researchers Are Investigating
Rising incidence and why experts are concernedAppendix cancer — once an exceedingly rare diagnosis encountered mostly in...
Late Breakfasts Linked to Biological Aging, Depression and Oral Health Problems: Chrononutrition Study Finds Modest Mortality Signal
Recent research suggests that when people eat — not just what they eat — may influence long-term health and even markers...
Digital blood-pressure programs lower risk more in women: Why heart care should be sex-specific with age
Study overview: mHealth, blood pressure monitors and a large real-world cohortAn integrated mobile health (mHealth) appr...
Tracing Leonardo da Vinci’s Genetic Legacy: Living Male Descendants and the Race to Reconstruct His DNA
A genealogical bridge to Leonardo’s genomeFor over five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has been studied as an unparalleled...
World’s Oldest Microbial DNA Recovered from Million-Year-Old Mammoth Remains
Ancient microbes preserved in mammoth remainsAn international team led by the Centre for Palaeogenetics has retrieved mi...
Gribshunden Wreck Reveals Europe’s Earliest Naval Artillery and a Lost Chapter of Age of Exploration
A royal wreck with global significanceArchaeologists from Lund University have reopened a window into late 15th-century ...
NASA’s MMS Spacecraft Find Pickup Ions Generating Waves That Could Reshape Solar Wind Models
New observations: pickup ions and unexpected wave activity near EarthA team led by Dr. Michael Starkey at the Southwest ...
Sense of Purpose Tied to 28% Lower Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia, UC Davis Study Finds
Summary and key findingA longitudinal analysis from the University of California, Davis, reports that adults who report ...
From a Jerash Tooth to Venice: Tracing the Origins and Persistence of Plague
Recent paleogenomic work that analyzed a tooth from Jerash has clarified the early geographic and evolutionary history o...