Research, Space & Discovery
yushu UniversitySkeletal muscle is one of the first tissues to decline with age. This decline can lead to weakness, scarring, fat accumulation inside muscle, and the loss of fast-twitch...
Ian Sample, GuardConfining mealtimes and snacks to a nine-hour window and avoiding food for four hours before bed may help stave off cognitive decline in older age, researchers...
Bohumil Petrík, Nat'l Catholic RegisterThe lifespan gap between monks and nuns almost disappears inside the cloister, and community life with a rule of life, scheduled prayer, and purpose...
Ian Sample, The GuardianAn investigation into what people think about has put the spotlight on the modern mind, revealing thoughts dominated by work, the need for coffee and a strong desire...
Julia Belluz, New York TimesOne of the more successful activist campaigns in U.S. history was about keeping dietary supplements virtually unregulated. In the early 1990s, Americans besieged...
Andy Tomaswick, Universe TodayBlack holes represent some of the most extreme environments in the universe. They're the sources of the strongest consistent gravitational fields, which allows...
Fiona Macdonald, Sci AlertLast June, while most of us weresweating it outand...
Joe Schwarcz, Office for Science and SocietySure, I thought, when I saw the claims on the box. "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser cleans dirt and grime like you never thought you could." Well, I have...
Jonathan Jarry, McGill OSSIn early September 2020, lightning strikes turned the forests of the West Coast of the United States into matchbooks. The fires recoloured the skies and their...
Sarah Stanley, EOSIo—Jupiter's third-largest moon—is constantly kneaded and deformed by the gravitational pull of Jupiter and two of its other moons, Europa and Ganymede. The resulting...
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Aaron Carroll, Wa PoHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recentlyannounced plansto...
Evrim Yazgin, ConnectSciBreakfast increased the overall intake of important nutrients like fibre, iron, zinc and choline in teens compared to those who skipped the day's first meal,...
Hank Campbell, Science 2.0Nostalgia says things were always better when you were a child.Sometimes that is objectively true. McDonald's french fries were better, for example,...
Anastasia Scott, DiscoverA resident of Świnoujście, Poland, went into a coastal forest on the eastern side of the city to gather blueberries. While picking them, he came across a hole...
Jennifer Fields, Washington PostAt 74, Roz Garfinkel can still recall the hearing test results of some of the 300 children she worked with during her career as a school audiologist. What...
Stockholm UniversityThe most severe droughts in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean arose when multiple natural climate cycles coincided, according to a new study from Stockholm University...
Peter Rüegg, ETH ZurichSimulations conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich suggest a strong likelihood that Venus's rift valleys are still geologically active rather than being mere relics...
Rutgers UniversitySkeletal muscle is one of the first tissues to decline with age. This decline can lead to weakness, scarring, fat accumulation inside muscle, and the loss of fast-twitch...
HZDR"The quantum Zeno effect is a previously overlooked obstacle to a certain class of quantum computers," says Dr. Gernot Schaller, head of Quantum Technologies at