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How listening to nostalgic music could stave off dementia
Eight weeks of daily focused music-listening was found to improve connectivity in several brain regions. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 19 – In 2020 an incredible video went viral. It featured a former ballet dancer named Marta Cinta González Saldaña, suffering from …
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images – By Kate Clifford Larson, Professor of History, Brandeis University Originally Published: 2022 Apr 28 – Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she …
Why men have more damaging heart attacks than women
New research has identified why heart attacks cause more damage in males. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 16 – A new study has discovered the reason why men tend to sustain more heart muscle damage following a heart attack than women: the …
Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
Heated scented wax products produce significant amounts of unhealthy indoor air pollution. DALL-E – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 16 – Using scented products indoors changes the chemistry of the air, producing as much air pollution as car exhaust does outside, according to a …
Alzheimer’s biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms
Tau proteins can malfunction and disrupt the microtubules that help transport nutrients and information through brain cells, causing Alzheimer’s Disease. geralt / Pixabay – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Feb 15 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can …
An ancient tree revealed the tale of Earth’s magnetic field reversal
An ancient kauri tree log from Ngāwhā, New Zealand. Nelson Parker – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 13 – A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The …
What do Egyptian mummies smell like? Scientists sniff out an answer
Air samples are collected from three sarcophagi in storage at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Emma Paolin – By Michael Irving 2025 Feb 13 – We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: …
How your morning coffee is changing the structure of your brain
Caffeine seems to reduce the volume of gray matter in a brain but the effect is temporary. Shidlovski/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 11 – A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in …
Simple peanut-butter eating plan helps allergic kids build tolerance
Children who could tolerate at least a little peanut butter were able to tolerate a whole lot more after an 18-month desensitization regimen. Depositphotos – By Michael Franco 2025 Feb 11 – Children with high-threshold peanut allergies showed incredible improvements after undergoing an 18-month …
This personality type thrives when life gives out lemons, science finds
Some people are better at making lemonade from life’s lemons. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Feb 09 – How you cope in a crisis and then move on from it may have less to do with your learned life skills and instead be …
Existing cardiac drug helps keep cancer from spreading
A new treatment could dissolve circulating cancer cells and prevent their spread. Martin Oeggerli (Micronaut), supp. by Pathology, Univ Hosp Basel, BioEM-Lab, Biozentrum, Unibas, N Aceto ETH Zurich – By Michael Irving 2025 Feb 09 – One of cancer’s deadliest tricks is its ability …
Wound dressing uses tiny flowers to go big on killing bacteria
Small but deadly – one of the antibacterial nanoflowers, seen here on the nanofiber fabric. Adapted from ACS Applied Bio Materials 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.4c00788 – By Ben Coxworth 2025 Feb 08 – While we’ve seen antibacterial wound dressings before, Italian scientists have taken the …
3-day juice cleanse spikes bad bacteria levels in gut & mouth
Juicing for only three days caused significant changes to the oral microbiome. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 06 – Downing fruit and vegetable juice as a way of fasting, cleansing, or detoxing can unbalance the health-affecting bacteria in your gut and mouth, …
‘Ionic wind’ vortex ring launchers extinguish fires cleanly and safely
A new handheld device could extinguish fires using compressed air fired in a vortex ring, carrying a conductive aerosol. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Feb 06 – Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers …
Common supplement shows new signs of interrupting the aging process
You won’t need this much of the supplement to reap its potential anti-aging benefits. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Feb 04 – While the price of eggs in the US is unlikely to come down anytime soon, it might be time to find …
Preventing immune system burnout when fighting chronic illness & cancer
Stem-like T cells can re-energize an exhausted immune system. DALL-E – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 04 – Scientists have uncovered a mechanism for reinvigorating the immune system to stop it from flagging when it’s fighting long-term conditions like chronic infections and cancer. The …
Your environment affects how well your medications work − identifying exactly how could make medicine better
Even the air you breathe may influence how effective a drug may be for you. Jorg Greuel/Photodisc via Getty Images – By Gary W. Miller, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Published: 2025 Feb 03 – Your genes …
“Injectable bone” gel may be a radically better treatment for osteoporosis
When injected into a weakened bone, the hydrogel boosts bone density by prompting the growth of new bone tissue. flowbone/EPFL LBO – By Ben Coxworth 2025 Feb 02 – Osteoporosis is typically treated with orally administered drugs, which may take up to a year …
Nutrition advice is rife with misinformation − a medical education specialist explains how to tell valid health information from pseudoscience
If a health claim about a dietary intervention sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Mizina/iStock via Getty Images Plus – By Aimee Pugh Bernard, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Published: 2025 Jan 28 – …
“Kick and kill”: HIV cure could be hiding in FDA-approved drug
A compound called EBC-46 has shown promise as a potential HIV cure, using a “kick and kill” mechanism to remove dormant reserves of the virus. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Jan 31 – HIV has become a more manageable condition in recent years, …
FDA approves new class of painkiller – the first in more than 20 years
The FDA has approved a novel first-in-class analgesic. Original image via Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Jan 30 – The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a novel painkiller as an effective treatment for short-term moderate-to-severe pain in adults. …
Urine-based cancer test accurate even without the uncomfortable bit
A new finding makes it much more comfortable to get screened for prostate cancer. Depositphotos – By Michael Franco 2025 Jan 29 – A test for pee-based markers of prostate cancer has previously relied on an uncomfortable first step. A new study has revealed …
Trillion-dollar disruptor: China’s DeepSeek upends AI world overnight
DeepSeek’s open-source model shows that the US way is not the only AI way. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 27 – The US AI giants got a wake-up call this week, when fledgling Chinese firm DeepSeek wiped a record-breaking trillion dollars off …
$49 gadget tells you how safe your food and water is in just 3 seconds
The EcoTracker sensor quickly determines the safety of a variety of common fruits and vegetables and displays the results in a user-friendly way. Milerd – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 27 – We put a lot of trust in the authorities responsible for keeping …
Pet dogs emerge as surprising culprits in spread of salmonella
It’s a lot easier to get salmonella from pet dogs than you might think. Justin Veenema / Unsplash – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Jan 26 – You’ve probably heard that Salmonella is most commonly transmitted through food or water contaminated by the bacteria of …
Self-balancing, omnidirectional big red balls bike
The completed omnidirectional self-balancing bike built by James Bruton. XRobot View 7 Images – By Joe Salas 2025 Jan 25 – James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled “Screw bike.” Now he’s done it again with …
Colorful keyboard offers AI-assisted route to piano speed learning
Roli offers a colorful, AI-assisted approach to piano learning. Roli – By Paul Ridden 2025 Jan 24 – The struggle is very real for folks learning to play piano, so much so that many abandon study when faced with painfully slow progress. Music tech …
New AI picks up 97% of lung diseases, and can tell pneumonia from COVID-19
AI detects lung diseases from the tiniest of ultrasound details. Generated by DALL-E – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 23 – A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it …
Ghost in the machine: The race toward conscious, sentient AI
Canadian startup Nirvanic hopes to prove quantum consciousness theories by creating sentient AIs and robots. And yes, this is a company to be taken seriously. Nirvanic Consciousness Technologies – View 6 Images – By Loz Blain 2025 Jan 22 – As science wrestles with …
Film sets of the near future: Just as fake as the ‘film’ itself
“Behind the scenes” on a 99% AI-generated production. László Gaál – By Loz Blain 2025 Jan 20 – If you want to understand the cataclysmic impact generative AI is about to have on the film industry, this one short video should make it very …
Why is the sky blue?
Light at the blue end of the rainbow is scattered more efficiently than the other colors. shomos uddin/Moment via Getty Images – By Daniel Freedman, Dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Stout Published: 2025 Jan 20 – …
Mystery of Summer-killing volcano solved
The caldera of Zavaritskii volcano. Oleg Dirksen/University of St. Andrews – By David Szondy 2025 Jan 19 – A climactic mystery about a year that gave Summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the …
Fly-eyed glasses may help the visually impaired see well again
Whereas flies and most other insects have compound eyes (pictured), the SolidddVision Smartglasses have compound lenses. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2025 Jan 18 – A clever new set of glasses may offer new hope to people with macular degeneration. By copying the structure …
Meteorite strike captured in rare video from Canadian home’s doorbell camera
Rare footage captures meteorite descending to Earth on doorbell camera – video Sound was also recorded in footage of space rock hitting house entranceway, producing cloud of smoke and a crackle Associated Press The Guardian 2025 Jan 17 – A doorbell camera on …
Move over, Starlink, there’s a new satellite-to-cell service in town
With satellite direct-to-cell technology, no spot is a dead spot. Deposit Photo – By Joe Salas 2025 Jan 16 – Most people with cell phones might not ever experience what it feels like to suddenly find yourself in a dead zone. If you have, …
The surprising secret weapon to arm yourself with this flu season
Fiber has been found to significantly bolster virus protection. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 15 – We all know that a healthy, balanced diet dominated by unprocessed foods is a recipe for gut and overall health, but scientists have now found just …
4 reasons why the US might want to buy Greenland – if it were for sale, which it isn’t
A plane owned by Donald Trump arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, on 2025 Jan 07. Emil STACH / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT (Photo by EMIL STACH/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images – By Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University …
First satellite tracker for dogs keeps tabs on your pet anywhere
The tracker on the black labrador (left) provides satellite tracking even beyond the reaches of cell signals. Satellai – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Jan 13 – If you’re an avid outdoorsperson who loves exploring nature with their dogs, there’s a new piece of tech …
First US human death from bird flu is more serious than you may think
Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 12 – Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human death as a result of avian influenza H5N1 infection. The unidentified Louisiana man contracted …
Microbes can colonize space, produce drugs and create energy − researchers are simulating their inner workings to harness how
Genome-scale metabolic models capture the complex chemical reactions that allow cells to function. Yuri Arcurs/iStock via Getty Images Plus – By Blaise Manga Enuh, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbial Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Published: 2025 Jan 06 – After so many …
How listening to nostalgic music could stave off dementia
Eight weeks of daily focused music-listening was found to improve connectivity in several brain regions. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 19 – In 2020 an incredible video went viral. It featured a former ballet dancer named Marta Cinta González Saldaña, suffering from …
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images – By Kate Clifford Larson, Professor of History, Brandeis University Originally Published: 2022 Apr 28 – Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she …
Why men have more damaging heart attacks than women
New research has identified why heart attacks cause more damage in males. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 16 – A new study has discovered the reason why men tend to sustain more heart muscle damage following a heart attack than women: the …
Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
Heated scented wax products produce significant amounts of unhealthy indoor air pollution. DALL-E – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 16 – Using scented products indoors changes the chemistry of the air, producing as much air pollution as car exhaust does outside, according to a …
Alzheimer’s biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms
Tau proteins can malfunction and disrupt the microtubules that help transport nutrients and information through brain cells, causing Alzheimer’s Disease. geralt / Pixabay – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Feb 15 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can …
An ancient tree revealed the tale of Earth’s magnetic field reversal
An ancient kauri tree log from Ngāwhā, New Zealand. Nelson Parker – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 13 – A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The …
What do Egyptian mummies smell like? Scientists sniff out an answer
Air samples are collected from three sarcophagi in storage at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Emma Paolin – By Michael Irving 2025 Feb 13 – We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: …
How your morning coffee is changing the structure of your brain
Caffeine seems to reduce the volume of gray matter in a brain but the effect is temporary. Shidlovski/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 11 – A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in …
Simple peanut-butter eating plan helps allergic kids build tolerance
Children who could tolerate at least a little peanut butter were able to tolerate a whole lot more after an 18-month desensitization regimen. Depositphotos – By Michael Franco 2025 Feb 11 – Children with high-threshold peanut allergies showed incredible improvements after undergoing an 18-month …
This personality type thrives when life gives out lemons, science finds
Some people are better at making lemonade from life’s lemons. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Feb 09 – How you cope in a crisis and then move on from it may have less to do with your learned life skills and instead be …