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Psychedelic beer used by ancient empire to win friends
Researchers speculate the leaders of the ancient Wari empire used beer spiked with a hallucinogenic drug to win over neighboring communities during large feasts. J. OCHATOMA PARAVICINO/M. E. BIWAR ET. AL., ANTIQUITY (2021) – By Rich Haridy 2025 Mar 22 – A study published …
Alzheimer’s prevention hope as drug cuts deadly disease onset in half
Trial delivers promising results for genetic Alzheimer’s disease. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 21 – A long-term human trial has found that a discontinued drug halved the presentation of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in people with a genetic predisposition to the devastating condition. …
Nearly 100% of cancer identified by new AI, easily outperforming doctors
Using AI to save lives. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 20 – In what’s expected to soon be commonplace, artificial intelligence is being harnessed to pick up signs of cancer more accurately than the trained human eye. This latest AI model has …
Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement
This drug discovery promises molecular rehabilitation for stroke patients. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 19 – There’s newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe is the very first drug that can comprehensively deliver rehabilitation without the need for …
Google’s first satellite for detecting wildfires is now in orbit
Wildfires can erupt faster than current systems can detect them – and do immense damage if they’re not tackled soon after they start. Marcus Kauffman / Unsplash –View 3 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Mar 18 – The first satellite in a constellation …
See you in the funny papers: How superhero comics tell the story of Jewish America
A five-story replica of a stamp of Superman in 1998 in Cleveland, home of the superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File – By Miriam Eve Mora, Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Michigan Published: 2025 …
Post-polio immune therapy aces human trials
The treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can appear years after the initial infection, was effective. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Mar 15 – Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors years after the …
Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success
Scientists have managed to convert mouse skin cells directly into motor neurons, skipping the usual step of stem cells in between. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Mar 14 – In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a …
New tinnitus treatment emerges from blocking back-channels in the ear
The discovery of a strange mechanism between the ear and the brain could lead to a new potential tinnitus treatment. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Mar 14 – If some speakers in your sound system were broken, you might try to compensate …
Sugar-free slushies can make children seriously sick
The glycerol in sugar-free slushies has been blamed for a spate of very sick kids. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Mar 13 – Across the UK and Ireland in recent years, there has been an increase in kids becoming seriously ill soon after …
Why we’re eavesdropping on talking fish
Clownfish are just one of many reef species that are known for having a lot to say. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2025 Mar 12 – You may not think of fish as being noisy, but they can actually be a pretty vocal bunch. …
Eye surgeons turn to teeth in astonishing vision treatments
As science-fiction-y as it sounds, tooth-in-eye surgery has proven to be effective in dozens of cases over the last six decades. Brands&People / Unsplash By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Mar 11 – A surgical procedure to restore the power of sight to blind patients …
Common medicines linked to 12% drop in dementia risk
Could these over-the-counter drugs have more extensive long-term benefits? Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 09 – Scientists have found further evidence that long-term use of common over-the-counter pain medication such as aspirin and ibuprofen may reduce the risk of developing dementia. While …
As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
A microscopic view of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. koto_feja/E+ via Getty Images – By Karen Dobos, Professor of Microbiology, Colorado State University and by Marcela Henao-Tamayo, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Colorado State University Published: 2025 Mar 06 – …
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and health care expenses
Daylight saving time kicks in on 2025 Mar 09, but some say it leads to more heart attacks, depression and car accidents. Lord Henri Voton/E+ via Getty Images – By Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Published: 2025 Mar 07 – …
NIH funding cuts will hit red states, rural areas and underserved communities the hardest
Protesters on the University of Illinois Chicago campus raise concerns over funding cuts for medical research on 2025 Feb 19. Scott Olson via Getty Images – By Prakash Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina and by Mitzi Nagarkatti, …
Natural alternative to Ozempic brings results without side effects
The finding could offer a new path to weight loss without the side effects common with Ozempic. Depositphotos – By Michael Franco 2025 Mar 06 – After screening 20,000 protein-encoding genes in the human body, Stanford researchers have identified a naturally occurring molecule that …
Out-of-balance bacteria is linked to multiple sclerosis − the ratio can predict severity of disease
The myelin sheaths insulating neurons are damaged in multiple sclerosis. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library/Brand X Pictures via Getty Images – By Ashutosh Mangalam, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Iowa Published: 2025 Mar 03 – Multiple sclerosis is a disease that results when …
“Woolly mouse” is one wild step towards resurrecting the mammoth
The scientists altered seven genes to give these mice woolly mammoth traits. Colossal Biosciences – View 2 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 04 – The quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth on Earth has taken another, well, small step with the creation …
Type 2 diabetes: New plant-based pill shows promise in human trials
A new plant-based pill significantly improved blood sugar control in type 2 diabetics. Depositphotos and generative AI – By Paul McClure 2025 Mar 03 – A clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a new, plant-based oral drug to treat type 2 diabetes has …
Watch: Insanely ambitious flying car project gets off the ground
The test showed the car’s capacity to drive and take off vertically. Alef Aeronautics – View 6 Images – By Utkarsh Sood 2025 Mar 02 – California startup Alef Aeronautics has released “the first documented, verifiable flight of a flying car (an actual car, …
The “anticancer” super-fruit that suddenly has a lot of new fans
Interest in soursop is at an all-time high. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 01 – There’s newfound interest in a little-known fleshy green fruit native to South and Central America, which has long been used in traditional medicine for protection against bacterial …
To get heavy metals out of your water … just brew some tea in it?
In a recent study, tea leaves were found to take up heavy metal ions from their own brewing water. Vinayak P. Dravid Group/Northwestern University – By Ben Coxworth 2025 Mar 01 – Among other things, tea has already been shown to reduce depression, reduce …
Two beers a day shrinks your brain as much as a decade of aging
A new study has found that two standard drinks a day was associated with brain changes equivalent to aging two years. Depositphotos – By Loz Blain 2025 Feb 28 – A 2022 study of more than 36,000 high-quality MRI brain scans found drinking …
New weight loss mechanism blocks formation of white fat cells in mice
Mouse studies have revealed a new potential mechanism for weight loss that directly targets the formation of white fat cells. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Feb 27 – Scientists in China have found a new potential drug target for weight loss. Blocking a …
Self-healing asphalt uses plant spores to keep potholes from forming
Swansea University’s Dr. José Norambuena-Contreras with a sample of the self-healing asphalt. Swansea University – By Ben Coxworth 2025 Feb 26 – If you want to stop potholes from forming in asphalt roads, you’ve gotta get ’em while they’re still just tiny cracks. A …
Pair of common viruses may trigger Alzheimer’s disease
A new study speculates the chicken pox virus can reactivate a dormant herpes infection, leading to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Tufts University – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 25 – A fascinating collaborative study in 2022, between researchers at the University of Oxford …
Diet and fitness apps linked to problem eating and body image issues
Diet and fitness monitoring apps had some unintended consequences. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 24 – New research has linked the use of diet and fitness apps to problematic eating habits and body image issues, particularly in young people. It highlights the …
Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
A new approach to insulin cell transplantation could provide a cure for type 1 diabetes. Original by Depositphotos, extended using generative AI – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 23 – Transplanting insulin-producing cells along with engineered blood-vessel-forming cells has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes, …
“Honest” placebos: Sugar pills can work even when you know they’re fake
More research is revealing placebos still work even when a subject knows they are taking them. Furian/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2025 Feb 22 – A fascinating study published in 2018 found patients suffering from cancer-related fatigue displayed significant improvement in their symptoms after …
Brazilian city in Amazon declares emergency after huge sinkholes appear
A sinkhole in the Amazonian town of Buriticupu in Brazil on Thursday. Photograph: Mauricio Marinho/Reuters – Brazil – In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people risk losing their homes, and residents have seen the problem escalate in 30 years Reuters in Buriticupu 2025 Feb 21 …
What we eat impacts the quantity and quality of our sleep
The protein, carbohydrates, fiber, and fats we eat can affect our sleep quality. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Feb 20 – A new study has shown how individual components of our diet – the protein, carbohydrates, fiber and fats we eat – can …
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 …
Psychedelic beer used by ancient empire to win friends
Researchers speculate the leaders of the ancient Wari empire used beer spiked with a hallucinogenic drug to win over neighboring communities during large feasts. J. OCHATOMA PARAVICINO/M. E. BIWAR ET. AL., ANTIQUITY (2021) – By Rich Haridy 2025 Mar 22 – A study published …
Alzheimer’s prevention hope as drug cuts deadly disease onset in half
Trial delivers promising results for genetic Alzheimer’s disease. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 21 – A long-term human trial has found that a discontinued drug halved the presentation of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in people with a genetic predisposition to the devastating condition. …
Nearly 100% of cancer identified by new AI, easily outperforming doctors
Using AI to save lives. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 20 – In what’s expected to soon be commonplace, artificial intelligence is being harnessed to pick up signs of cancer more accurately than the trained human eye. This latest AI model has …
Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement
This drug discovery promises molecular rehabilitation for stroke patients. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Mar 19 – There’s newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe is the very first drug that can comprehensively deliver rehabilitation without the need for …
Google’s first satellite for detecting wildfires is now in orbit
Wildfires can erupt faster than current systems can detect them – and do immense damage if they’re not tackled soon after they start. Marcus Kauffman / Unsplash –View 3 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2025 Mar 18 – The first satellite in a constellation …
See you in the funny papers: How superhero comics tell the story of Jewish America
A five-story replica of a stamp of Superman in 1998 in Cleveland, home of the superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File – By Miriam Eve Mora, Managing Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Michigan Published: 2025 …
Post-polio immune therapy aces human trials
The treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can appear years after the initial infection, was effective. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Mar 15 – Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors years after the …
Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success
Scientists have managed to convert mouse skin cells directly into motor neurons, skipping the usual step of stem cells in between. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Mar 14 – In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a …
New tinnitus treatment emerges from blocking back-channels in the ear
The discovery of a strange mechanism between the ear and the brain could lead to a new potential tinnitus treatment. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2025 Mar 14 – If some speakers in your sound system were broken, you might try to compensate …
Sugar-free slushies can make children seriously sick
The glycerol in sugar-free slushies has been blamed for a spate of very sick kids. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2025 Mar 13 – Across the UK and Ireland in recent years, there has been an increase in kids becoming seriously ill soon after …