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 …	
	        
                            
                							
                    
    				    
	
					
	
		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 …	
	        
                            
                							
                    
    				    
	
					
	
		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, …