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Michelle Starr, Sci Alert Sometimes health can feel a bit like a thunderclap. You're living your life as healthy as a horse, then boom, out of nowhere, illness strikes. Some...

Rituparna Palit, The Scientist When he was 22 years old, Amar Ram, a college graduate from Chhattisgarh in central India developed what seemed like a recurring abscess on his foot. Nearly...

Mark Mills & Julio Ottino, RealClearScience This summer marked the 70th anniversary of the meeting when the term "artificial...

Jacek Krywko, SA GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are transformational. From helping people lose weight to controlling their blood sugar to tamping down inflammation and improving heart health, these...

Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth's climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate "overshoot," scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the...

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica Russia's attempt to replicate SpaceX's Starlink satellite network seems to be moving as slowly as the front lines in eastern Ukraine. The Rassvet program,...

Alan Boyle, Univ Today Scientists and philosophers have argued over the nature of time since … well, since time immemorial. Does time flow unceasingly in one direction? Is our...

Philip Ball, Chemistry World 'It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of the origin of life,' Charles Darwin wrote to his friend Joseph Hooker in 1863. But that didn't stop him speculating...

Carrie Arnold, Quanta No larger than the head of a match, Potamopyrgus antipodarum doesn't look very impressive. Few people visiting New Zealand's Lake Alexandrina even notice the...

Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams The question of when to launch an interstellar mission has occupied us many times in the past. Specifically, how long do we wait so that travel times are...

Hank Campbell, Sci 2.0 In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr., a staunch ally of President Obama, to...

Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Why are some societies ruled by autocrats — powerful people who make all the decisions with barely, if any, checks and balances — while in others, the governed...

RMIT University Research led by RMIT University shows the 3D-printed titanium lattice - made up of hollow, interconnected struts filled with foam - not only floats, but also withstands...

Pensoft Blog Researchers have described a new species of leafless flowering plant found on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand, and its otherworldly appearance has earned...

Huiyee Chiew & Lyric Li, Washington Post

April Rubin, Medscape A new hypothesis for aging puts women at the center of understanding — and potentially extending — human health span. Reproduction and longevity should be...

EurekAlert! An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the...

MIT Neutrinos are the pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars, and our bodies by the trillions each second. The elementary...

Jennifer L. Wolff, Health Affairs The United States has experienced unprecedented, sustained population aging in the last century and a quarter. In 1900, average life expectancy at birth was...

Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience At your earliest embryonic moments of life, you had the superpower of X-Men's Wolverine. You could regenerate. "Embryos exhibit a unique capacity for...