A vast zone of hot rock buried deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains may owe its origins not to ancient African tectonics, as once thought, but to the dramatic split between Greenland and North America nearly 80 million years ago, scientists report.
Jul 31, 2025
A new study suggests that a nanoemulsion form of vitamin D3 may offer measurable improvements in language abilities, social IQ, and autism severity in children…
Jul 31, 2025
How ‘Scrumping’ Apes May Have Given Us a Taste for Alcohol Before humans brewed their first beer or raised a glass in celebration, our ancestors may have been tipsy on a much humbler vintage: fermented fruit scavenged from the forest floor.
Jul 31, 2025
More than one in four American adults are completely sedentary, and the toll it takes is not just physical.
Jul 29, 2025
Researchers have developed a wearable brain stimulation system that can be used at home and tailored by artificial intelligence to improve focus, especially in people with low baseline attention.
Jul 29, 2025
Chinese researchers have unveiled a powerful new tool for Earth observation: a 30-meter resolution Landsat composite data cube covering every year from 1985 to…
Jul 29, 2025
A crimson berry long prized by nomads in western China is offering new hope in the fight against type 2 diabetes.
Jul 25, 2025
Female gorillas don’t just follow the rules of the hierarchy—they challenge them when it suits their needs.
Jul 25, 2025
As the Trump administration proposes a 40% reduction to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget for 2026, a new analysis warns that these cuts could undermine scientific progress, weaken the biomedical workforce, and raise long-term health care costs.
Jul 25, 2025
Despite safe and effective treatments for hepatitis B virus (HBV), fewer than 3% of the world’s 256 million chronically infected people receive them.
Jul 24, 2025
In a surprising twist for marine science, researchers have discovered that copepods—tiny but crucial creatures at the base of the ocean food chain—use not one but two molecular toolkits to survive in a warming, acidifying ocean.
Jul 24, 2025
Wheat is having a moment. Not the trendy sourdough starter kind, but the underground—literally—glow-up brought to you by fungi.
Jul 23, 2025
A large study across sub-Saharan Africa has revealed a previously unrecognized subtype of diabetes in children and young adults—one that lacks the usual markers of type 1 diabetes and may be receiving the wrong treatment as a result.
Jul 23, 2025
Anti-obesity medications can lead to dramatic weight loss—but what happens after patients stop taking them?
Jul 23, 2025
