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Archaeothanatology reads a burial from the position of the body: which joints are still articulated, what the body is touching, where it lies in the sediment.
Aug 24, 2026
A Yale-led mouse study found that chronic semaglutide recruited AgRP neurons to support sustained fat loss, separating reduced eating from the body's longer-term metabolic response.
Aug 24, 2026
The bacterium strengthened mice in a controlled model, but the striking 29% human handgrip difference came from only 33 older adults and remains observational.
Aug 24, 2026
A 2017 model put South Korean women's 2030 life expectancy at 90.8 years, but its probability of crossing 90 was just 57 per cent. Newer official data make that uncertainty central to the story.
Aug 24, 2026
A 2.8-point survival gap separated earlier and later eating trajectories, but the observational study suggests delayed breakfast may reveal declining health rather than cause it.
Aug 24, 2026
Large kangaroos recycle landing energy through long ankle tendons, helping explain why their oxygen use changes little across fast hopping speeds and why their energy cost per meter can fall.
Aug 23, 2026
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology report that gutless marine worms make an enzyme that breaks down…
Aug 23, 2026
A labour-demand design linked a ten-point employment decline to cognitive scores 0.11 standard deviations lower among men aged 51 to 64, but it cannot identify which part of work or job loss caused the change.
Aug 23, 2026
A misplaced fossil fragment hid a species' identity for two decades until a chance discovery revealed a previously unknown Triassic reptile hiding in plain sight.
Aug 22, 2026
