Researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions have uncovered exceptionally rare traces of “proto Earth,” the ancient precursor to our planet that existed about 4.5 billion years ago. This primitive world...
Immunotherapy is a cancer treatment that harnesses the body’s own immune defenses to attack tumors. It has shown remarkable success against cancers of the lung, kidney, and bladder but has...
Growing research suggests that medications commonly prescribed for diabetes and weight loss (including the well-known Ozempic and Wegovy) might also help people drink less alcohol. A new study from the...
Scientific breakthroughs rarely happen all at once. More often, they evolve slowly, as researchers and engineers build on years of steady progress until the extraordinary eventually becomes routine. Now, scientists...
For centuries, scientists have noticed that certain illnesses seem to pass from one generation to the next, a connection first noted by Hippocrates, who observed that some diseases “ran in...
New findings from Edith Cowan University (ECU), Curtin University, and the University of Western Australia show no evidence that taking calcium alone increases the risk of developing dementia over time....
For nearly ten years, the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program has been redefining how scientists study the human brain. Instead of relying on intact brain tissue from humans or animals, researchers...
A major study from Cleveland Clinic found that people with both obesity and type 2 diabetes who had weight-loss surgery lived longer and experienced fewer serious health issues than those...
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University may have uncovered a promising clue in the long-running effort to confirm the existence of dark matter. For years, astronomers have puzzled over a faint,...
How did the universe come into existence, and what early processes shaped everything that followed? A new study published in Physical Review Research takes aim at this fundamental question. Scientists...
