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Scientists Found a Tiny Molecule That May Help Explain Why Our Cellular Energy Fades With Age
Of the thousands of proteins inside an aging worm, the three that fade fastest all belong to the same tiny biological assembly line. One production chain begins to fall quiet at almost the exact moment the animal’s ability to maintain its energy starts to weaken. That pattern caught the attention of Tetiana Poliezhaieva, a biologist…
Scientists May Have Finally Settled The Coffee Health Debate
For decades, coffee came with a warning. Too much caffeine could make the heart race, raise blood pressure, and potentially trigger irregular rhythms, so many people were told to cut back. Now, a growing body of research has forced scientists to reconsider that advice. The latest evidence suggests that moderate coffee drinking may be far…
Five People Whose Discoveries Saved Millions of Lives
A dying 14-year-old boy became part of a medical breakthrough that would change the lives of millions. On January 11, 1922, Leonard Thompson received an experimental injection at Toronto General Hospital while weighing just 65 pounds and fighting a disease that had almost certainly doomed him. The first attempt failed, leaving him with an abscess…
Honolulu Student Finds Fungi That Could Break Down Plastic and Sunscreen
What happens after pollution is pulled out of the ocean but remains trapped inside a filter? That question sent a Honolulu high school student from a homemade coconut-fiber experiment into a university laboratory, where researchers found fungi capable of breaking down plastic and chemical sunscreen. Vera Wang’s project produced another surprise along the way. Some…
Soft Food May Have Helped Humans Learn to Say F and V
An overbite might seem like a modern dental problem, but researchers believe it could have quietly influenced the way humans speak. A shift toward softer food may have altered human jaws over thousands of years, making sounds like “f” and “v” easier to produce and leaving a possible mark on languages still spoken today. For…
Doctor Explains What Spending 93% of Your Time Indoors Could Be Doing to Your Body
Most people don’t wake up and think their biggest problem is that they spend too much time indoors. They blame stress, work, poor sleep, anxiety, or simply getting older. Yet Americans spend around 87% of their time inside buildings and another 6% inside vehicles, leaving surprisingly little time outdoors. Dr. John La Puma believes that…
FDA Approves New Pancreatic Cancer Drug After Trial Nearly Doubled Median Survival
A new treatment has been approved for one of the most difficult cancers to treat, and the clinical trial results behind the decision are already drawing major attention. The FDA has approved Rasonque, also known as daraxonrasib, for certain adults with advanced pancreatic cancer after a study found that patients taking the drug had a…
New SNAP Rules Cut Soda Purchases Across Multiple States
The fight over what Americans can buy with food stamps has produced its first major set of numbers, and they are giving Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement something to celebrate. A new study found that soda purchases fell by about 12% among SNAP recipients after several states restricted the use of…
Scientists Put Two Leading Theories of Consciousness to the Test, and the Brain Refused to Cooperate
A face flashes across a screen for half a second, then disappears. A letter follows. Then comes a symbol designed to resemble a letter while carrying no meaning at all. Inside a scanner, a volunteer watches as machines track one of science’s deepest mysteries: the moment a brain becomes aware of what it sees. The…
Giant Pacific Virus Discovered With a Tail Longer Than Many Bacteria
What does it take for something too small to see to find the one cell in the ocean that can keep it alive? For a virus drifting through the open Pacific, the odds are brutally difficult. The water can appear almost empty across enormous distances, leaving a microscopic particle to drift until it either encounters…