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July 18, 2025
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July 18, 2025 In a groundbreaking UK first, eight healthy babies have been born using an IVF technique that includes DNA from three people—two parents and a female donor. The process, known as pronuclear ...
July 18, 2025 A gene called SDR42E1 has been identified as a key player in how our bodies absorb and process vitamin D. Researchers found that disabling this gene in colorectal cancer cells not only crippled their ...
July 17, 2025 Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their ...
July 17, 2025 Yoga, Tai Chi, walking, and jogging may be some of the best natural remedies for improving sleep and tackling insomnia, according to a large analysis comparing various treatments. While cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) remains effective, ...
July 16, 2025 Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, and practical experience—some of which ...
July 16, 2025 Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, move, and die, allowing organs like the colon to remain flawlessly organized even as they renew every few days. ...
July 14, 2025 Zebrafish can regenerate sensory hair cells that humans permanently lose, like those in the inner ear linked to hearing and balance. New research reveals two specific genes that control how different supporting cells in zebrafish divide and ...
July 13, 2025 Aging men aren't just battling time—they're up against rising blood sugar. New research reveals that subtle increases in metabolic markers like glucose have more influence on declining sexual ...
July 12, 2025 A cat named Pepper has once again helped scientists discover a new virus—this time a mysterious orthoreovirus found in a shrew. Researchers from the University of Florida, including virologist John Lednicky, identified this strain during unrelated ...
July 11, 2025 Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...
July 11, 2025 Blue sharks possess a secret hidden in their skin: a sophisticated arrangement of microscopic crystals and pigments that create their brilliant blue appearance — and may allow them to change color. Scientists have discovered that these ...
July 10, 2025 Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...
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July 18, 2025 Tourists feeding wild elephants may seem innocent or even compassionate, but a new 18-year study reveals it s a recipe for disaster. Elephants in Sri Lanka and India have learned to beg for snacks ...
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 ...
July 17, 2025 Neanderthals living in two nearby caves in ancient Israel prepared their food in surprisingly different ways, according to new archaeological evidence. Despite using the same tools and hunting the ...
July 17, 2025 A groundbreaking study from Flinders University reveals that it's not just making eye contact that matters, but precisely when and how you do it. By studying interactions between humans and virtual ...
July 16, 2025 After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric ...
July 15, 2025 High in Fiji s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door apartments. Rival ant species nest in these chambers, fertilizing their host with ...
July 15, 2025 Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the long-running Hubble ...
July 13, 2025 Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects ...
July 13, 2025 For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to AI-powered genetic research, scientists have revealed a far more entangled ...
July 12, 2025 A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with ...
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July 11, 2025 A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...
July 12, 2025 A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With ...
July 10, 2025 What if humans didn’t have to suffer the slow-burning fire of chronic inflammation as we age? A surprising study on two types of lemurs found no evidence of "inflammaging," a phenomenon ...
July 11, 2025 In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow in space. The Moon-Rice project, led by the Italian Space Agency in ...
July 10, 2025 Male guppies that glow with more orange aren’t just fashion-forward — they’re also significantly more sexually active. A UBC study reveals that brighter coloration is linked to virility and is ...
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 ...
July 9, 2025 Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their ...
July 9, 2025 Less than a quarter of us hit WHO activity targets, but a new UCL study suggests the trick may be matching workouts to our personalities: extroverts thrive in high-energy group sports, neurotics ...
July 8, 2025 A new UCL study reveals that aligning workouts with personality boosts fitness and slashes stress—extroverts thrive on HIIT, neurotics favor short, private bursts, and everyone benefits when ...
July 8, 2025 High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, ...
July 9, 2025 Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our ...
July 8, 2025 Hovering fish aren’t loafing—they burn twice resting energy to make micro-fin tweaks that counteract a natural tendency to tip, and body shape dictates just how costly the pause is. The discovery ...
July 8, 2025 As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ice sheets have suppressed eruptions for thousands of years, building up ...
July 8, 2025 Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep within them. These “dark dwarfs” could exist in regions like the ...
July 8, 2025 Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” ...
July 7, 2025 Feral water buffalo now roam Hong Kong s South Lantau marshes, and a 657-person survey shows they ignite nostalgia, wonder, and worry in equal measure. Many residents embrace them as living links to ...
July 6, 2025 Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still ...
July 5, 2025 In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange light-sensitive molecules in tiny microbes. These “cryorhodopsins” can ...
July 7, 2025 Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The ...
July 7, 2025 Feeling jittery as the week kicks off isn’t just a mood—it leaves a biochemical footprint. Researchers tracked thousands of older adults and found those who dread Mondays carry elevated cortisol ...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
- Why Monkeys—and Humans—can’t Look Away from Social Conflict
- Bigger Crops, Fewer Nutrients: The Hidden Cost of Climate Change
- Matching Your Workouts to Your Personality Could Make Exercising More Enjoyable and Give You Better Results
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
- Hate Exercise? Neuroscience Maps the Routine Your Personality Will Love
- What Happens When Bees Can’t Buzz Right? Nature Starts Falling Apart
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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- Hovering Fish Burn Twice the Energy—study Shocks Scientists
- Melting Glaciers Are Awakening Earth's Most Dangerous Volcanoes
- They Glow Without Fusion—hidden Stars That May Finally Reveal Dark Matter
- Scientists Discover the Moment AI Truly Understands Language
Monday, July 7, 2025
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- How a Lost Gene Gave the Sea Spider Its Bizarre, Leggy Body
- New Research Shows Monday Stress Is Etched Into Your Biology
Sunday, July 6, 2025
- Multisensory VR Forest Reboots Your Brain and Lifts Mood—study Confirms
- Pregnancy’s 100-Million-Year Secret: Inside the Placenta’s Evolutionary Power Play
Friday, July 4, 2025
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- A Midlife MRI That Spots Rapid Aging and Signals Disease Long Before Symptoms
- The Pandemic Pet Boom Was Real. The Happiness Boost Wasn’t
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- Earth’s Weather Satellites Just Spent 10 Years Watching Venus — Here’s What They Found
- Why Do Killer Whales Keep Handing Us Fish? Scientists Unpack the Mystery
- How Female Friendships Help Chimp Babies Survive
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- Scientists Just Reconstructed Half the Neanderthal Genome—thanks to Indian DNA
- The Gene That Hijacks Fear: How PTEN Rewires the Brain’s Anxiety Circuit
Saturday, June 28, 2025
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- 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
Thursday, June 26, 2025
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- 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
Saturday, June 28, 2025
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- 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
- Scientists Reprogram Ant Behavior Using Brain Molecules
- 1. 7 Million Patients Reveal Stunning Link Between Semaglutide and Lower Dementia Risk
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
- Mining the Deep Could Mute the Songs of Sperm Whales
- 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
- 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
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- What the Universe Tried to Hide: The 21-Centimeter Signal Explained
- 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
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- Frozen in Time: Transparent Worms Keep Genes in Sync for 20 Million Years
- Cold Sore Virus Hijacks Human Genome in 3D--and Scientists Found Its Weak Spot
- Fitness Trackers Are Failing Millions — This Fix Could Change Everything
- Self-Esteem Skyrockets 131% After Weight-Loss Surgery, Study Reveals
Thursday, June 19, 2025
- Thinking AI Models Emit 50x More CO2—and Often for Nothing
- Microscopic Heist: How Lung Bacteria Forge Weapons to Steal Iron and Survive
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- Invisible Quantum Waves Forge Shape-Shifting Super-Materials in Real Time
- 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
- Defying Darwin: Scientists Discover Worms Rewrote Their DNA to Survive on Land
- AI Sniffs Earwax and Detects Parkinson’s With 94% Accuracy