What’s in your tummy might affect what’s in your head. By Matt Davis – For decades, researchers have tried in vain to answer the question: What causes schizophrenia? At the same time, we’ve developed a growing understanding of how intimately linked the bacteria …
By Rich Haridy – It’s hoped a new drug showing promise for reversing age- and depression-related memory loss will move into human safety testing within the next two years. (Credit: vitstudio/Depositphotos). A team of Canadian scientists has developed a fascinating new experimental drug …
By Nadia Kounang, CNN – PFAS chemicals are known as “forever chemicals,” a family of potentially thousands of synthetic chemicals that are extremely persistent in the environment and in our bodies. PFAS is short for perfluoroalky and polyfluoroalkyl substances and includes chemicals known …
By Rich Haridy – Examining over 1,000 people, a new study revealed two bacteria in particular as being strongly associated with mood and depression. (Credit: TLFurrer/Depositphotos). Perhaps one of the most compelling, and little understood, areas of gut microbiome science is the strange relationship …
David Szondy – Artist’s rendering of researchers’ simulations showing how planetary systems born in dense and massive star formation regions (left) inherit substantial amounts of radioactive materials, making them much drier than those formed in different environments. (right) (Credit: Roger Thibaut). The Earth as …
By Paul Ridden – The eMove Cruiser from Voro Motors is on sale in the US now. (Credit: Voro Motors). Voro Motors – the firm responsible for last year’s Orca Mark I seated e-scooter – has been selling its eMove scooter series …
Some scientists refuse to accept it. By Peter Hess – Controversial new research shows that a tiny, unsuspecting species of fish can pass a test that’s widely considered the gold standard of intelligence. As far as we can tell, only a few …
Maybe math isn’t so hard after all. By Peter Hess – Scientists trained bees to do basic math, complicating what we know about brain size and brain power. Honeybees may have sesame seed-sized brains, but they’re way smarter than scientists suspected. Stunning …
By Mike Brown – Seeing Spots. No matter how big-brained your dog is, it probably can’t load a dishwasher or do a dance on command. Those are just two of the reasons why Boston Dynamics, creators of the surprisingly cute robo-dog SpotMini, received …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s impression of the warped shape of the Milky Way disk. (Credit: Chao Liu, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Conventional wisdom has long held that the Milky Way was more or less a flat disk …
