Category Science

Climbing rates of colon and rectal cancer among people under 50 years old is a striking recent trend that has alarmed and puzzled clinicians racing to figure out why. Now a new study published in Gut offers what might be…

A new UCLA study reveals that men with early-stage prostate cancer may benefit from a simple dietary intervention: reducing omega-6 fatty acids while increasing omega-3s through diet and fish oil supplements. The year-long clinical trial demonstrated significant reductions in cancer…

In London, where I live, you can forget about a white Christmas. The best I can hope for is a pitiful flurry of flakes. So, this year, I am on a mission to create my own snow. And not just…

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, allegedly took several sophisticated-sounding steps to thwart detection. Thompson was killed in a highly surveilled urban setting, but his assailant wore a…

Washington University researchers have secured a $2.9 million grant to develop an innovative vaccine approach that could prevent the protein buildup associated with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, while avoiding the inflammatory responses that have hindered previous treatments. Published…

A Red Cross worker spraying chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024 MOISE KASEREKA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Mpox surged in parts of East, West and Central Africa in 2024, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to…

Many of us do not have to look much farther than our family, circle of friends, or co-workers to know someone who has been touched by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or a neurological disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease. And that…

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically too complex for scientists to attempt making. But while mirror life is still…

In May, auroras turned the night sky amazing colours in Tucson, Arizona Sean Parker Seeing the northern lights, or aurora borealis, typically requires travelling to frosty climes as far north as Norway or Iceland, but this year they have been…

December 13, 2024 4 min read Science-Backed Sleep Tips from 2024 to Help You Snooze Better From the “sleepy girl mocktail” to power naps, researchers explained which sleep trends this year really help with quality shut-eye By Lauren J. Young…