WEIRD SCIENCE
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
