Listening to Cosmic Dawn: 13-Billion-Year Radio Clues
More than 13 billion years after the Big Bang, a whisper from hydrogen atoms could finally tell us how the first stars w...
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Plasmasphere Under Siege: Inside the May 2024 Superstorm
In May 2024 Earth was hit by one of the most intense geomagnetic superstorms in decades. Observations from Japan’s Arase...
Ultra-Processed Foods: A Global Public Health Emergency
New landmark papers in The Lancet warn that ultra-processed foods are rapidly displacing traditional diets worldwide, de...
Tiny Laser Sparks Could Reveal How Lightning Begins
When an experiment goes wrong in the lab, it can open a new door. That is exactly what happened to Andrea Stöllner and h...
Golden Orb Two Miles Deep: Mysterious Find Off Alaska
During a 23‑day NOAA Ocean Exploration mission off Alaska, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) encountered an object that ...
Could a Skin Cream Deliver Insulin and End Needles?
A new polymer-based topical treatment may one day allow people with diabetes to apply insulin like a lotion instead of i...
Root Canal Treatment May Lower Blood Sugar and Risk
New research suggests that treating chronic root canal infections could improve markers of blood sugar control and reduc...
Immune 'Assassins' Target Senescent Cells to Slow Aging
Researchers have identified a specialized class of CD4 immune cells that identify and destroy senescent cells — the so-c...
Why Winter Dinner Timing Really Matters for Your Health
As daylight shrinks and evenings grow longer, many of us drift toward later dinners and extra snacking. But timing your ...
Did We Breed Neurodiversity Into Our Household Pets?
Many pet owners recognize unmistakable individuality in their animals: a golden retriever who won’t stop wagging, a cat ...
Common Gut Microbiome Patterns in Neurodivergent Kids
A small, exploratory study from Comenius University in Slovakia finds overlapping gut microbiome changes in children wit...
Why NASA Is Watching the Growing South Atlantic Anomaly
Across the skies between South America and southwest Africa lies a curious and expanding weakness in Earth's magnetic sh...
Hidden Carcinogens in Cooked Foods: New Detection Method
Everyday cooking methods — grilling, smoking, roasting — can introduce invisible hazards into food. A recent study from ...
Did Water Persist Beneath Mars' Dunes? New Findings
New analysis of Martian dunes suggests underground water once trickled through the sands of Gale Crater, leaving mineral...
Skydiver Silhouetted Against the Sun: The Preposterous Photo
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured an extraordinary moment: a skydiver, silhouetted against the Sun's fiery disk...
Stress-Sensitive Neurons That Drive Brain Blood Flow
A tiny, stress-sensitive population of neurons deep in the cortex may be orchestrating blood flow and electrical activit...
Metformin and Exceptional Longevity: New Evidence for Women
New analysis suggests a familiar diabetes medication may also boost the odds of reaching an unusually long life in women...
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Metformin and Exceptional Longevity: New Evidence for Women
New analysis suggests a familiar diabetes medication may also boost the odds of reaching an unusually long life in women...
Can High-Dose Vitamin B3 Ease Long COVID Brain Fog?
A new randomized clinical trial tested whether boosting a key cellular energy molecule could ease lingering cognitive an...
Cutting Arsenic in Water Slashed Deaths by Half, Study
A 20-year investigation in Bangladesh shows that reducing arsenic levels in drinking water can halve deaths from cancer,...