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This Common Gut Sugar Might Be the Hidden Trigger for ALS and Dementia

This Common Gut Sugar Might Be the Hidden Trigger for ALS and Dementia

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 17, 2026February 17, 2026

For decades, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) have felt like cruel riddles. They arrive quietly, then reshape…

Scientists Found a Secret Brain Switch That Can Erase Body Fat Without Dieting

Scientists Found a Secret Brain Switch That Can Erase Body Fat Without Dieting

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 17, 2026February 17, 2026

For years, scientists have known that not all fat in the body behaves the same way. Some fat seems eager…

Doctors Warn of a Hidden Pathogen Turning Infant Brain Tissue to Liquid

Doctors Warn of a Hidden Pathogen Turning Infant Brain Tissue to Liquid

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 17, 2026February 17, 2026

In hospital nurseries, the smallest patients fight the biggest battles. Premature lungs struggle to breathe. Fragile hearts learn to beat…

Tropical Forests Are Actually Giant Rain Machines Hiding in Plain Sight

Tropical Forests Are Actually Giant Rain Machines Hiding in Plain Sight

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 17, 2026February 17, 2026

Stand beneath a tropical forest canopy and you feel it immediately. The air is heavy, alive, almost breathing. Sunlight filters…

This 5,000 Year Old Bacterium Was Already Resistant to Modern Antibiotics

This 5,000 Year Old Bacterium Was Already Resistant to Modern Antibiotics

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 17, 2026February 17, 2026

Deep inside Romania’s Scarisoara Ice Cave, beneath layers of frozen time, something extraordinary lay hidden. For five thousand years, sealed…

Silicon Quantum Computers Can Now Catch Their Own Mistakes Without Crashing

Silicon Quantum Computers Can Now Catch Their Own Mistakes Without Crashing

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 17, 2026February 17, 2026

Imagine a computer so sensitive that even the faintest environmental tremor can throw it off course. A machine that does…

Astronomers Found a Giant Star That Skipped the Supernova and Turned Directly Into a Black Hole

Astronomers Found a Giant Star That Skipped the Supernova and Turned Directly Into a Black Hole

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 16, 2026

In 2014, deep within the vast spiral of the Andromeda galaxy, a massive star began to glow more brightly in…

Archaeologists Finally Solved the 90 Year Mystery of the Chalcolithic Cornets

Archaeologists Finally Solved the 90 Year Mystery of the Chalcolithic Cornets

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 16, 2026February 16, 2026

For decades, archaeologists kept encountering the same strange object, again and again, at certain ancient sites and not at others.…

Dark Matter Might Be the Invisible Hand Humming Behind the Universe’s Faintest Magnetic Fields

Dark Matter Might Be the Invisible Hand Humming Behind the Universe’s Faintest Magnetic Fields

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 16, 2026February 16, 2026

Long before galaxies fully blossomed and long after the first atoms formed, something subtle was already stretching across the vastness…

Your Brain Connectivity Patterns Could Predict If Acupuncture Will Stop Your Migraines

Your Brain Connectivity Patterns Could Predict If Acupuncture Will Stop Your Migraines

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026February 15, 2026

For millions of people, migraine without aura arrives like an uninvited storm. There are no flickering lights, no shimmering zigzags…

This Impossible Magnetic Shape Stays Stable Without Any Help From Gravity or Fields

This Impossible Magnetic Shape Stays Stable Without Any Help From Gravity or Fields

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026

For half a century, hopfions existed mostly in the quiet realm of theory—mathematical shapes so intricate they seemed almost unreal.…

This Bizarre Class of Matter Keeps Ticking All by Itself

This Bizarre Class of Matter Keeps Ticking All by Itself

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026

Timekeeping has always depended on rhythm. From the steady swing of pendulums to the precise flicker of atomic transitions, every…

This New Super Sensor Can Sniff Out Deadly Ammonia in Just 1.4 Seconds

This New Super Sensor Can Sniff Out Deadly Ammonia in Just 1.4 Seconds

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026February 15, 2026

Ammonia is everywhere—working quietly behind the scenes of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and countless industrial processes. Yet despite its usefulness, it carries…

This Tiny Molecular Sentinel Inside Your Cells Decides How Your Body Heals

This Tiny Molecular Sentinel Inside Your Cells Decides How Your Body Heals

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026February 15, 2026

Deep within the surface of nearly every human cell lies a vast communication network—tiny molecular sentinels constantly listening, responding, and…

The Indian Ocean Is Losing Its Salt at a Rate That Has Scientists Stunned

The Indian Ocean Is Losing Its Salt at a Rate That Has Scientists Stunned

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026February 15, 2026

Far from shore, in the vast stretch of the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia, something subtle yet extraordinary is…

The Ground Beneath Your Feet Predicts Where Deadly Scorpions Are Hiding

The Ground Beneath Your Feet Predicts Where Deadly Scorpions Are Hiding

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026February 15, 2026

In landscapes where human footsteps cross dusty ground and heat shimmers across the horizon, danger often hides in places no…

The Air Around Egyptian Mummies is Actually a 4000 Year Old Historical Archive

The Air Around Egyptian Mummies is Actually a 4000 Year Old Historical Archive

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 15, 2026February 15, 2026

The scent of history is rarely something we imagine. When we think of ancient mummies, we picture linen wrappings, silent…

Your Brain Is Pathologically Lying to You About a Hole in Your Vision

Your Brain Is Pathologically Lying to You About a Hole in Your Vision

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 14, 2026February 14, 2026

It feels impossible, almost poetic, that every human being walks through the world with a small hole in their vision…

Scientists Uncover the Heartbreaking Burial of a Stone Age Girl and Her Jewelry

Scientists Uncover the Heartbreaking Burial of a Stone Age Girl and Her Jewelry

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 14, 2026February 14, 2026

Deep in the quiet of Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria’s Great Urswick, something extraordinary waited in the dark. For…

This Tiny Molecule Might Solve the Biggest Mystery of How Life Began

This Tiny Molecule Might Solve the Biggest Mystery of How Life Began

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 14, 2026February 14, 2026

Imagine the Earth before life. No forests. No oceans teeming with fish. No whisper of wind through leaves. Only a…

This Distant Stellar Explosion Stayed Bright for 126 Days and No One Expected It

This Distant Stellar Explosion Stayed Bright for 126 Days and No One Expected It

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 13, 2026February 13, 2026

On November 15, 2024, a faint but unmistakable spark appeared in the galaxy NGC 2146. At an apparent magnitude of…

Scientists Detect One of the Brightest Cosmic Explosions Ever Seen

Scientists Detect One of the Brightest Cosmic Explosions Ever Seen

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 13, 2026February 13, 2026

On July 2, 2025, during what was meant to be an ordinary sweep of the sky, something refused to stay…

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