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July 19, 2025
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July 19, 2025 Erythritol, a widely used sugar substitute found in many low-carb and sugar-free products, may not be as harmless as once believed. New research from the University of Colorado Boulder reveals that even small amounts of erythritol can harm brain ...
July 19, 2025 Scientists have cracked a century-old physics mystery by detecting magnetic signals in non-magnetic metals using only light and a revamped laser technique. Previously undetectable, these faint magnetic “whispers” are now measurable, revealing ...
July 19, 2025 Romaine lettuce has a long history of E. coli outbreaks, but scientists are zeroing in on why. A new study reveals that the way lettuce is irrigated—and how it’s kept cool afterward—can make all the difference. Spraying leaves with untreated ...
July 19, 2025 A groundbreaking pilot in NHS dementia wards is using live music therapy—called MELODIC—to ease patient distress without relying on drugs. Developed by researchers and clinicians with input from ...
July 19, 2025 Clear-cutting forests doesn’t just raise flood risk — it can supercharge it. UBC researchers found that in certain watersheds, floods became up to 18 times more frequent and over twice as severe after clear-cutting, with these effects lasting ...
July 19, 2025 Ancient Iranians hosted epic feasts with wild boars that had been hunted and transported from distant regions. These animals weren’t just dinner—they were symbolic gifts. Tooth enamel analysis ...
July 18, 2025 Despite our strong belief in dogs' ability to sense good from bad in people, new research shows they may not actually judge human character, at least not in the way we think. When dogs watched how ...
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 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 sugary treats and human food leading to deadly ...
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 18, 2025 President Trump s diagnosis of Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI) has brought renewed attention to a frequently overlooked yet dangerous condition. CVI affects the ability of veins especially in the legs to return blood to the heart, often leading ...
July 18, 2025 Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...
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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 ...
July 17, 2025 Mango lovers and growers alike may soon rejoice: scientists at Edith Cowan University have found that a simple dip in ozonated water can drastically extend the shelf life of mangoes by up to two ...
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 Using advanced metasurfaces, researchers can now twist light to uncover hidden images and detect molecular handedness, potentially revolutionizing data encryption, biosensing, and drug ...
July 17, 2025 Crystals may seem flawless, but deep inside they contain tiny structural imperfections that dramatically influence their strength and behavior. Researchers from The University of Osaka have used the ...
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 An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. ...
July 16, 2025 After devastating wildfires scorched the Brazilian Pantanal, an unexpected phenomenon unfolded—more jaguars began arriving at a remote wetland already known for having the densest jaguar population ...
July 16, 2025 Dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s disease using scent have shown remarkable accuracy in new research. In a double-blind trial, they identified skin swabs from people with Parkinson’s with up to ...
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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 romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...
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, ...
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 ...
July 15, 2025 Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose mirror-image “handedness” remains rock-solid for tens of thousands of years. By ...
July 16, 2025 A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields—rivaling those near neutron stars—all within a compact laboratory ...
July 16, 2025 Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to be just a cellular "courier" actually helps plants survive drought. This motor protein, myosin XI, plays a critical role in helping ...
July 14, 2025 Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. ...
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 ...
July 14, 2025 Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining cutting-edge data from the ALMA observatory and ESA’s Gaia mission. ...
July 14, 2025 A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a ...
July 14, 2025 Researchers in Australia have created a biodegradable gel that delivers Parkinson’s medications through a single weekly shot, replacing the need for multiple daily pills. Injected just under the ...
July 14, 2025 Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled across the cosmos and shook the foundations of astrophysical theory. ...
July 14, 2025 Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. ...
July 12, 2025 A surprising new study has uncovered over 200 misfolded proteins in the brains of aging rats with cognitive decline, beyond the infamous amyloid and tau plaques long blamed for Alzheimer’s. These ...
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 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 14, 2025 Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding ...
July 13, 2025 New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- Scholars Just Solved a 130-Year Literary Mystery—and It All Hinged on One Word
- 1,000-Year-Old Health Hacks Are Trending—and Backed by Science
- New Study Cracks the “tissue Code” — Just Five Rules Shape Organs
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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- This Laser Implosion Just Created a Magnetic Field Like a Neutron Star
- The Secret Motor Protein That Slams Leaf Pores Shut—and Saves Crops
Monday, July 14, 2025
- Hubble Cracks Open a Glittering Cosmic Time Capsule, Revealing Multi-Generational Stars 160,000 Light-Years Away
- Can Zebrafish Help Humans Regrow Hearing Cells?
- It Looked Like Nothing—then Scientists Found a World 10x the Size of Jupiter
- This AI-Powered Lab Runs Itself—and Discovers New Materials 10x Faster
- One Shot, Seven Days: Long-Acting Levodopa Gel Tackles Parkinson’s Tremors
- Two Monster Black Holes Just Collided — It’s So Massive, It Shouldn’t Exist
- Gravitational Shockwave: LIGO Catches a 225-Solar-Mass Black-Hole Smash-Up
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- Florida Cat Sniffs out Another New Virus—and Scientists Are Listening
- Inside the Maya King’s Tomb That Rewrites Mesoamerican History
- Tiny Fossil With Razor Teeth Found by Student — Rewrites Mammal History
- Researchers Grow 400+ Brain Cell Types—a Leap for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Research
Friday, July 11, 2025
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- Scientists Uncover 15,000 Kilometers of Lost Rivers on Mars
- NASA Probe Flies Into the Sun and Captures the Origins of Solar Storms
- A Simple Twist Unlocks Never-Before-Seen Quantum Behavior
- This Tiny Rice Plant Could Feed the First Lunar Colony
- The First Pandemic? Scientists Find 214 Ancient Pathogens in Prehistoric DNA
- Chang’e-6 Unearths Volcanic and Magnetic Mysteries on the Moon’s Farside
- This Shark Can Change Color — Thanks to Hidden Nano Mirrors in Its Skin
- In Seconds, AI Builds Proteins to Battle Cancer and Antibiotic Resistance
Thursday, July 10, 2025
- Brighter, Bolder, Hotter: Why Female Guppies Can't Resist Orange
- Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s
- Lasers Capture the Invisible Dance of Wind and Waves
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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- 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
- Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born
- Ice in a Million-Degree Fermi Bubble Reveals the Milky Way’s Recent Eruption
- Hidden DNA-Sized Crystals in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite Water—and Life Itself
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
- North America’s Oldest Pterosaur Unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic Time Capsule
- Hovering Fish Burn Twice the Energy—study Shocks Scientists
- MIT Scientists Just Supercharged the Enzyme That Powers All Plant Life
- Melting Glaciers Are Awakening Earth's Most Dangerous Volcanoes
- They Glow Without Fusion—hidden Stars That May Finally Reveal Dark Matter
Monday, July 7, 2025
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Monday, July 7, 2025
- Whispers in the Womb: How Cells “hear” to Shape the Human Body
- Breakthrough Battery Lets Physicists Reverse Entanglement—and Rewrite Quantum Law
- How a Lost Gene Gave the Sea Spider Its Bizarre, Leggy Body
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
Saturday, July 5, 2025
- Can One Vanishing Particle Shatter String Theory — and Explain Dark Matter?
- A Shocking New Way to Make Ammonia, No Fossil Fuels Needed
Friday, July 4, 2025
Thursday, July 3, 2025
- When Rainforests Died, the Planet Caught Fire: New Clues from Earth’s Greatest Extinction
- Scientists Just Mapped Platinum Atoms — and It Could Transform Catalysis Forever
- Why Anger Cools After 50: Surprising Findings from a New Menopause Study
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
- The Pandemic Pet Boom Was Real. The Happiness Boost Wasn’t
- Ultrafast 12-Minute MRI Maps Brain Chemistry to Spot Disease Before Symptoms
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
- Citizen Scientists Spot Rare Exploding Star in Real-Time
- Is Cheese Secretly Fueling Your Nightmares? Science Weighs in
Sunday, July 6, 2025
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
- 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
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
- Is That Really ADHD? Why Flawed Trials May Be Misleading Millions
- Are Lefties Really More Creative? 100 Years of Data Say No
Monday, June 30, 2025
- Scientists Just Found a Sugar Switch That Protects Your Brain from Alzheimer's
- Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy Hit the Americas Long Before Colonization
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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
- This Brain Scan Sees Alzheimer’s Coming—but Only in Some Brains