The telltale shift came after the treats stopped. When mice were taken off a high sugar and butter diet, many turned to alcohol, and their gut microbes told the story.
Oct 31, 2025
Here's a twist in the AI story that should make anyone who asks a chatbot for life advice pause.
Oct 31, 2025
Children exposed to COVID-19 in the womb face a higher risk of developmental challenges by age three, according to new research from Mass General Brigham.
Oct 31, 2025
On the baked sands of the Kalahari, a cluster of meerkats bunch like a living compass, whiskers twitching, noses testing the wind.
Oct 31, 2025
In a clinic room in Singapore, patients sat quietly with one leg inside a plastic chamber while a gentle magnetic field pulsed through muscle.
Oct 31, 2025
At a picnic table, the air shimmers with summer heat. You wave your hand at a faint buzz, but it is too late.
Oct 31, 2025
Scientists have pinpointed five genes never before linked to obesity by analyzing DNA from nearly 850,000 people across six continental ancestries, a discovery…
Oct 30, 2025
Here is a hopeful twist in the exercise story that most of us do not hear: women appear to get more heart protection from each minute of movement than men.
Oct 29, 2025
For people born with the highest genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a small oral drug may finally be slowing the clock.
Oct 29, 2025
Scientists have long wondered how the brain converts touch and movement into electrical and chemical signals.
Oct 29, 2025
What if a small notebook could make you feel more connected to your job? A new study from Ritsumeikan University suggests that it can.
Oct 29, 2025
Inside a small transparent square of soft gel, chemistry imitates comfort. Like milk easing the sting of hot peppers, this new artificial tongue mimics that soothing reaction to measure just how fiery a food really is.
Oct 29, 2025
Tell Americans that AI might take their jobs in two years, and they'll shrug. Tell them it might happen in 36 years, and they'll shrug a bit less.
Oct 28, 2025
Scientists have pinpointed a rare type of brain cell that goes haywire in mice showing schizophrenia-like behavior, and when they dialed down the activity of these cells, the animals' symptoms improved.
Oct 28, 2025
