For generations, the scientific consensus has been clear: the human brain, though it makes up only about 2% of our body weight, consumes roughly 20% of our energy—and it gets…
Category: Health and Medicine
Plastic Found in Human Reproductive Fluids Sparks Alarming Questions
They are too small to see, and yet they are everywhere—in oceans and rivers, in food, in the air we breathe. And now, for the first time, they have been…
Scientists Grow Mini Human Hearts That Could Transform Medicine
In a quiet laboratory, a few tiny structures no larger than chia seeds throb rhythmically under a microscope. They are not toys, nor simulations—they are living, beating human heart tissues.…
Why Non-Smokers Are Getting Lung Cancer at Alarming Rates
Lung cancer has long carried the shadow of cigarettes. It’s a disease that, for decades, has been almost synonymous with smoking. But behind the plumes of tobacco and decades of…
Scientists Discover a Natural Molecule That Fights Inflammation and Aging Like Exercise
In the relentless rhythm of modern life, many of us dream of a shortcut—a way to get the benefits of exercise without having to lace up our sneakers each day.…
Scientists Discover a Hormone in Fat That Extends Lifespan in Obese Mice
In a quiet corner of a lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a group of scientists may have just cracked part of the riddle that has long…
Scientists Discover the Secret Healing Power Hidden Inside Your Cheek
You accidentally bite the inside of your cheek while chewing. It hurts, stings for a moment, and then, astonishingly, it vanishes. Within a day or two, the wound is gone,…
Too Much Dairy Could Be Fueling Your Nightmares
If you’ve ever blamed a late-night slice of pizza or a bowl of ice cream for your restless sleep or bizarre dreams, science may finally be catching up with you.…
Scientists Make Brain Drugs Visible with Molecular Clicks That Could Change Neurology
In a laboratory half a world apart from one another, scientists in the United States and Sweden are working on a new kind of map—a map that could transform the…
Scientists Discover a Brain Connection That Could Explain Criminal Behavior
In recent years, a strange new kind of evidence has begun to appear in courtrooms: brain scans. Once the domain of hospitals and labs, MRIs and neural imaging now sit…
AI Tool from Mayo Clinic Helps Detect Nine Types of Dementia with a Single Brain Scan
Every day, millions of people around the world begin to lose pieces of themselves—memories slipping like grains of sand, familiar faces becoming strangers, once-simple words retreating into fog. Dementia is…
New Study Reveals Consciousness Might Begin in the Thalamus
Imagine you’re staring at a screen. A faint image flickers for a moment—was it there? Did you really see it? Or did your brain just fill in the blanks? Now,…
Scientists Discover the Brain’s Trick for Storing New Memories Without Erasing the Past
Each time you remember your first day of school or learn something new—like a colleague’s name or how to unlock a new feature on your phone—your brain performs an extraordinary…
This Smart Mattress Moves to Prevent Deadly Bed Sores
For patients confined to hospital beds, nursing homes, or even home care facilities, the biggest threat often doesn’t come from the disease they’re battling—but from the very bed meant to…
Stem Cell Therapy Restores Insulin Production in Type 1 Diabetes Patients
For over a century, people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have been told the same thing: your body has lost the ability to make insulin, and it won’t come back.…
Scientists Discover a Surprising Link Between Gut Damage and Ferroptosis
For millions around the world, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a life lived in quiet agony. Chronic pain. Fatigue. Endless bouts of diarrhea. Days structured around restroom access. Relationships, careers,…
Heat Waves and Aging Bodies Are Creating a Perfect Storm for Deadly Infections
As the world battles rising temperatures and faces another summer of record-breaking heat waves, scientists are uncovering a hidden and deadly side effect of our warming planet—one that hits hardest…
Scientists Discover Hidden Gene Regulators That Could Revolutionize Cancer and Autism Treatment
Every cell in your body—whether it forms your beating heart, your agile neurons, or the skin you live in—runs on the careful interpretation of a genetic script. That script is…
The Same Protein That Signals Alzheimer’s Helps Build the Brains of Newborns
It sounds like the setup to a riddle: what do the brains of newborn babies and people with Alzheimer’s disease have in common? At first glance, almost nothing. One is…
Breast Cancer Survivors May Face Lower Alzheimer’s Risk Than Other Women
In the midst of life after breast cancer—between follow-up scans, annual checkups, and cautious hope—many survivors share a common worry: cognitive fog. Dubbed “chemobrain,” it brings forgetfulness, confusion, and slow…
Your Brain Is Gardening While You Sleep and Pruning Your Memories
Sleep is as universal as life itself. Birds do it. Fish do it. Humans, cats, elephants, even fruit flies do it. Every species that sleeps follows a rhythm that has…