Health
Sugar Substitute Sorbitol May Fuel Liver Disease
That "sugar-free" gum or low-calorie candy in your desk drawer might not be the harmless treat you thought.
Dec 3, 2025
Health
Weight-Loss Drug Tames Blood Sugar in Schizophrenia Patients
Here's something you don't see often in psychiatry research: a treatment that actually works before the damage is done.
Dec 3, 2025
Physics
How Black Hole Disks Blaze With Light
Astrophysicists have created the most detailed simulations ever made of how black holes produce some of the universe's brightest light shows, using calculations that track every photon's journey through the twisted fabric of space-time.
Dec 3, 2025
Technology
New Design Tool Makes Sculpted Glass Roofs Practical
A new computer method from the University of Tokyo and U.S. engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti lets architects design large, curving glass-and-steel roofs in about 90 minutes on a normal computer instead of roughly 90 hours on a specialist graphics machine.
Dec 3, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Hidden Cell Layers Rewire Memory Map
Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found a new pattern in one of the brain’s key memory hubs.
Dec 3, 2025
Technology
Stanford Engineers Build Quantum Device That Works at Room Temperature
Stanford researchers have built a nanoscale optical device that entangles photons and electrons at room temperature, something quantum engineers have been trying to crack for years.
Dec 2, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Supplement Mix Reverses Autism-Linked Behaviors in Mice
A carefully balanced mix of zinc, serine, and branched-chain amino acids reversed social deficits in three different mouse models of autism, a new study from Academia Sinica in Taiwan reports.
Dec 2, 2025
Life
Big Mouth Crickets Grind Microplastics Smaller
Tropical house crickets raised in Ottawa, Canada, happily gobbled polyethylene microplastics mixed into their feed, treating them much like normal food.
Dec 2, 2025
Life
Sick Ants Flash a Chemical Alarm, Then Workers Finish the Job
Most of us would probably try to downplay an illness, but for ant pupae, the best way to protect family is to scent their own death.
Dec 2, 2025
Health
For Those With Dementia, Shingles Shot Tied To Slower Progression
A shingles vaccine already in routine use may do more than prevent a painful rash; it may also help delay dementia and slow the disease in people who already have it.
Dec 2, 2025
Earth & Environment
Urban Sprawl Puts Clean Water Access At Risk
By 2050, the way cities spread out could leave hundreds of millions of people without basic water and sanitation.
Dec 2, 2025
Health
Restless Legs May Flag Higher Parkinson’s Risk
People with restless legs syndrome may face a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease, but standard dopamine-based treatment could partly offset that danger, according to a large Korean study in JAMA Network Open from Korea University College of Medicine.
Dec 2, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Brain-Like AI Emerges Without Training Data in New Study
Before these systems ever see a single cat photo or traffic sign, some AI models are already humming in tune with the visual cortex.
Dec 1, 2025
Health
Scientists Crack the Mystery of Why Cells Age Faster in Labs
For decades, researchers have puzzled over a strange phenomenon: human cells grown in laboratory dishes age and stop dividing far sooner than cells inside the human body.
Dec 1, 2025