Using an experimental drug, scientists restored liver function in aging rats while also reducing blood amyloid beta by approximately 50% linked to Alzheimer's disease. The two-week treatment using Cin
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COVID-19 vaccinations generated trillions of dollars' worth of economic and health benefits
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Brain activity patterns may predict Alzheimer’s years before memory slips. The new scoring system was better at predicting cognitive decline than demographics, amyloid-beta and tau biomarkers, and gen
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A new study suggests that the concentration of floating microplastics within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be high enough to subtly alter the ocean's color, giving it a gradually growing cyan ti
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The European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has acquired its first close-up of the Didymos binary asteroid system
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has sent its first close-up images of the Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids. Hera is studying the DART impact, which changed the orbit of Dimorphos, to help make asteroid…
Climate change has stopped the next ice age
Global levels of adolescent physical activity have changed little since 2010, and no country is on track to achieve the target of a 15% reduction in physical inactivity by 2030: in 2025, 25% of teens
A global report finds adolescent physical activity has changed little since 2010, with girls consistently less active than boys. The report covers 389 surveys in 140 countries and more than 3.2 million adolescents aged…
FDA approves the first drug that can 'functionally cure' chronic hepatitis B
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World’s wettest rainstorms are getting wetter, affecting flood and drought risk. Events that deliver about half of global rainfall are getting shorter but more intense, with wide-ranging implications.
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Study Challenges Assumption That More Lean Body Mass Means Better Metabolic Health
A study of 59,269 UK Biobank participants found that where the body stores fat changes how fat-free mass (body weight minus fat) relates to blood sugar and metabolic syndrome (conditions that raise disease risk). The…
Something is still venting at Alba Mons
Swapping dairy milk, cheese and yoghurt for plant-based versions may leave people short on iodine, calcium, B2 and B12, a UK study of 3,500+ people finds. Swapping just one third cut iodine intake by
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New technique cuts through starlight to find giant exoplanet lost in JWST data
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All 5 genetic "letters" of DNA and RNA discovered in a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid
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The polar vortex is collapsing
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Research has traced the origins of Germanic languages and reshaped our understanding of Viking ancestry. Findings suggest that the linguistic foundations of English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian
Northern permafrost greening masks declining plant resilience, study finds
First Ever Detection of a Rocky Exoplanet’s Secondary Eclipse by Hubble
A survey of 50,000 people across 92 countries finds global mental health may be languishing, including in the wealthiest countries, and especially among young people, who in previous generations had c
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Physicists find first evidence of rarest beauty particle decay at CERN
The LHCb collaboration submitted a paper reporting the first single experiment evidence for B0 mesons (unstable particles) decaying into two muons (particles like heavy electrons), at 3σ significance. The analysis uses…
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Extreme heat no longer confined to summer, extending health risks, study finds. Extreme heat (and humidity) occurring outside the traditional summer window threatens both public health and agriculture
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First in a human: gene therapy fixed a one-letter DNA typo inside one patient's liver to treat alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, an inherited disease that damages the liver and lungs. The patient now ma
The Journal of Hepatology published a first clinical case report by Simon Alexander Krooss and colleagues on base editing in one patient with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (an inherited disease that damages the liver…
Feeling powerless, not distrusting politicians, is what links feeling left out to support for political violence. In a study of 5,501 people in 4 European countries, those who felt excluded and hopele
Tropical areas previously assumed to be stable and protected from climate change are experiencing a significant surge in extreme heat days and changing rainfall patterns
US government funding of research and development has gigantic returns, contributing to substantial innovation and business productivity. Government-funded R&D accounts for one-fifth of business-secto
Scientists built a hand-cranked gadget the size of a TV remote that tells your blood type and checks for blood loss or anemia from a single drop of blood in about a minute. No electricity, no lab, no
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Newborn survival improves when families receive monetary support
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SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase
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A study of for-profit hospices acquired by private equity firms found that Medicare spending rose by 5.9% per hospice stay after acquisition, compared with similar for-profit hospices that weren’t acq
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Scientists found what look like red blood cells inside a 115-million-year-old dinosaur leg bone from Brazil, plus traces of heme, the molecule that carries oxygen in blood
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