Health
Cancer Patients Who Quit Smoking Live Longer
Here's something most oncologists already suspected but rarely acted on: people with cancer who quit smoking live longer than those who don't.
Oct 9, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Hope in a Video: A New Path to Stress Relief
Stressed? Try watching a five-minute inspirational video. According to new research, it might be just as effective as meditation at calming your nerves.
Oct 9, 2025
Health
Diabetes Drugs May Curb Addiction
The medications transforming diabetes and weight loss treatment might have an unexpected side effect: reducing cravings for alcohol, opioids, and cigarettes.
Oct 9, 2025
Technology
Scientists Convert Discarded Bottles Into Power Storage
Every year, humans toss out more than 500 billion plastic water bottles. Most end up in landfills or oceans, stubbornly resisting decomposition for centuries.
Oct 9, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Military Leaders Think They Know More Than They Do, But 2-Min of Training Helps Lots
When national security officials claimed a statement had a 90% chance of being accurate, it turned out to be true only about 60% of the time.
Oct 8, 2025
Earth & Environment
Bacteria Store Sunlight to Clean Polluted Soil at Night
The ground beneath our feet is doing something strange. Somewhere in the opaque depths of saturated soil, where sunlight never reaches, bacteria are powering chemical reactions with energy they stored hours earlier, when the sun was still up.
Oct 8, 2025
Health
Short Bursts of Stair Climbing Beat Gym Excuses
Forget the 30-minute treadmill sessions you keep postponing. A new analysis of exercise research suggests that physically inactive adults might boost their…
Oct 8, 2025
Health
Living Drug Delivers Cancer Therapy From Inside Tumors
In what reads like science fiction, researchers have successfully weaponized bacteria to infiltrate tumors and deliver immune-boosting genetic payloads directly to cancer cells.
Oct 8, 2025
Health
Stevia Compound Boosts Hair Regrowth
The same plant extract that sweetens your diet soda might help treat male pattern baldness, according to new research that combines an ancient herbal remedy with modern drug delivery technology.
Oct 8, 2025
Earth & Environment
Amazon's Invisible Crisis: Fire Damage Now Worse Than Deforestation
The Amazon rainforest just experienced something scientists didn't see coming. In 2024, forest fires caused more carbon emissions than clear-cutting did for…
Oct 8, 2025
Brain & Behavior
AI Learns to Spot Exploding Stars From Just 15 Examples
Modern telescopes are magnificent gossips, generating millions of alerts every night about potential changes in the cosmos.
Oct 8, 2025
Health
Scientists Crack Code to Make Cancer-Fighting Cells Invisible
The problem with engineered immune cells has always been timing. By the time doctors extract a patient's cells, reprogram them to hunt cancer, grow enough copies to matter, and infuse them back, weeks have passed.
Oct 8, 2025
Technology
Hydrogel Trick Makes 3D-Printed Metals 20x Stronger
Most 3D printing happens in reverse: you build something up, layer by layer, until you have a finished product.
Oct 8, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Brain Study Reveals Shared Alzheimer's Gene Across Races
For the first time in Alzheimer's research, scientists examining brain tissue from African American donors have identified the same top genetic suspect that…
Oct 8, 2025