Deep within the chest of every human lies a strangely shaped, often overlooked organ—the thymus. Though it tends to shrink with age, this gland plays a vital, early role in…
Author: Muhammad Tuhin
Deadly Tomb Fungus Transformed into a Potent Cancer Fighter
It began as a whisper from the past—a deadly fungus hiding in the shadows of ancient tombs, once feared as a harbinger of the “Pharaoh’s Curse.” Now, nearly a century…
Escaping Photons Reveal Hidden Secrets of Matter
In the hushed stillness of a laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, where mirrors shimmer and photons are trapped between slices of light, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure…
Ancient Earth Burps of CO₂ Triggered Ocean Oxygen Crashes
Somewhere in the lush, subtropical hills of South China, scientists pulled secrets from ancient stone. In layers of sediment compacted over eons, they found evidence of something shocking—millions of years…
Melanoma’s Hidden Weakness Found in Its Power Supply
In the world of cancer research, every discovery is a race against time. Melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has long outpaced many efforts to stop it. But…
Scientists Discover the Brain’s Hidden Powerhouse of Abstract Thought
For decades, the thalamus has been something of a backstage character in the grand drama of the human brain. Tucked deep in the brain’s center, it was long seen as…
Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Helps You Recover From Lost Sleep
After a sleepless night, there’s a particular kind of drowsiness that creeps into the body—a thick, almost gravitational pull toward rest. For many, this ends in a late-afternoon nap or…
Bats Fall in Love in Church Attics as Males Sing for Their Mates
High above the pews and pulpit, in the forgotten shadows of ancient church attics, a strange and beautiful ritual unfolds each summer night. The darkness is thick, broken only by…
Hatshepsut’s Statues Were Broken with Ritual, Not Revenge
In the shadow of the cliffs at Deir el-Bahri, where sun-bleached stone holds centuries of royal ambition, ancient secrets are still revealing themselves—sometimes not in the unearthing of new ruins,…
A Long-Dead Satellite Just Sent a Signal and It Sounded Like a Cosmic Mystery
On a cold June night in 2024, astronomers at the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) were scanning the sky as they often do—listening for whispers from the farthest reaches…
What If an Asteroid Hits the Moon in 2032? Scientists Say Earth Could Feel the Impact—Spectacularly
In the cold darkness of space, a 200-foot-wide asteroid named 2024 YR4 is silently making its way around the Sun. To the naked eye, it’s invisible—a distant fleck of rock…
Your Brain Knows Ice Cream Is Coming Before You Do
You’re walking down the street on a warm summer evening when you hear it—the familiar jingle of an ice cream truck rolling around the corner. You haven’t seen it yet,…
A Hidden Hormonal Pathway in Women May Explain Melanoma’s Deadly Turn
For decades, oncologists have known that cancer doesn’t play fair between the sexes. Men are statistically more likely to develop most cancers, but women—especially before menopause—carry their own invisible vulnerabilities.…
Scientists Reveal Never-Before-Seen Brain Receptor Structures That Could Transform Neurological Treatment
Deep behind the brainstem, nestled like a hidden conductor in the back of the skull, lies the cerebellum—a structure no larger than a fist, yet responsible for the orchestra of…
New Diabetes Pill Targets Muscle and Burns Fat Without Side Effects
In a quiet lab in Stockholm, scientists may have just rewritten the playbook for treating type 2 diabetes and obesity. Imagine a pill—not an injection—that lowers blood sugar, burns fat,…
Stone Age Secrets Revealed in Ancient Tooth Jewelry
In a remote cemetery on the banks of Lake Burtnieks in northeastern Latvia, the earth has guarded its secrets for thousands of years. Here, at the Zvejnieki burial site—occupied by…
Scientists Freeze Proteins Inside Cells to Unlock Secrets of Disease
In a bustling lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, scientists have developed a molecular tool with a name as bold as its potential: the killswitch. But this…
Physicists Detect Mysterious Nonlinearity in Calcium Atoms, Tightening the Net on a Hypothetical Fifth Force
In the world of particle physics, where forces are measured in whispers and particles reveal themselves only through the finest disturbances, a subtle shift in the energy of a calcium…
Sugary and Diet Drinks Found Not to Raise Dementia Risk in Older Adults
For decades, a shadow has hung over the soda can and the sweetened iced tea: could the sugar inside be feeding not just our cravings, but our risk for dementia?…
Elder Twin of the Sun Shows Unexpected Magnetic Strength
High above the southern skies, visible to the naked eye and gleaming with quiet brilliance, β Hydri has long been regarded as a kind of celestial elder twin to our…
Mysterious Mineral Discovery in Ryugu Challenges Solar System History
When Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned to Earth in December 2020 carrying precious grains of asteroid Ryugu, it brought back more than just dust and rock—it carried the whispers of a…