A strange thing is happening in hospitals. Older folks—those at highest risk for colorectal cancer—are actually getting fewer cases. Meanwhile? The under-50 crowd is...
Look at Tyrannosaurus rex. Look at the arms. Ridiculously small. It’s the thing everyone jokes about. But the joke misses the point. The arms...
We are ingesting them. Tiny. Invisible. Plastic fragments sinking into our tissues through the food we eat and the water we drink. It sounds...
May 22nd is coming. Memorial Day Weekend arrives with a new chapter. The Mandalorian and Grogu drops on Friday, bringing that spinoff energy back...
The robot army that actually saves lives won't look like Terminator. Forget those little dancing androids in China or Elon Musk’s clumsy Optimus prancing...
Stars are born messy. Dust, hydrogen gas, gravity pulls it all together. The core heats up, collapses, and suddenly? A nuclear fusion reactor ignites....
At an Alcor facility in Arizona. Over 150 disembodied heads lie in cryogenic sleep. They wait. Preserved for a future that doesn’t exist yet,...
The trap of the chatbot
Teenagers ask computers how to eat. It’s 2024. The algorithm says salad. But wait, let’s check the rest of it....
We might have found dark matter by accident. Back in 2019, really.
It isn't a confirmed hit. Not yet. But scientists are looking at the...
The recent hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship serves as a stark case study in the shifting landscape of global public health....
For years, astronomers have puzzled over strange, compact clouds of gas drifting toward the center of our galaxy. These mysterious clumps, known as the...
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is officially being renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS). Announced by endocrinologist Helena Teede at the European Congress of Endocrinology...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have earned their moniker as “forever chemicals” through sheer stubbornness. These industrial compounds are chemically durable to an extreme...
Dating among adults over 50 is likely surging, yet researchers admit they have almost no data to back it up. While society assumes romance...
When the asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs, it triggered a global environmental catastrophe. Yet, amidst this devastation, flowering...