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The Surprising Reason Dark Chocolate Might Wake Up Your Brain—Before It Even Digests

The Surprising Reason Dark Chocolate Might Wake Up Your Brain—Before It Even Digests

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayNovember 2, 2025December 3, 2025

If you’ve ever sipped strong black tea, savored a piece of dark chocolate, or tasted red wine that made your…

Scientists Capture Blood Flow in 4D for the First Time—A Breakthrough That Lets Us Watch Life Itself Move

Scientists Capture Blood Flow in 4D for the First Time—A Breakthrough That Lets Us Watch Life Itself Move

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 31, 2025December 3, 2025

For the first time in history, scientists have managed to watch the living body’s lifeblood move in real time—through entire…

Scientists Create the First “High-Definition” Brain Growth Chart—And It’s Changing What We Know About Development

Scientists Create the First “High-Definition” Brain Growth Chart—And It’s Changing What We Know About Development

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 31, 2025December 3, 2025

The brain does not grow like a staircase—step by step, predictably. Instead, it unfolds like a living symphony, where countless…

Your Brain Cleans Itself While You’re Awake — But It Comes at a Shocking Cost

Your Brain Cleans Itself While You’re Awake — But It Comes at a Shocking Cost

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 31, 2025December 3, 2025

Nearly everyone knows the feeling: you wake after a night of poor sleep, and the world feels slightly out of…

Scientists Decode the Brain’s Hidden Circuit That Keeps Your Memories From Fading

Scientists Decode the Brain’s Hidden Circuit That Keeps Your Memories From Fading

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 31, 2025December 3, 2025

Memory is not just a recording of our experiences—it is a living process, constantly shaped, strengthened, and stabilized by the…

Scientists Discover Hidden “Drainpipe” in the Human Brain That Takes Out Its Trash

Scientists Discover Hidden “Drainpipe” in the Human Brain That Takes Out Its Trash

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 31, 2025December 3, 2025

Every moment, your brain hums with electrical activity—thinking, remembering, feeling, and sensing. But all this work produces biological “trash”: waste…

What Happens When the Brain Loses Its Rhythm? The Discovery That Could Transform Parkinson’s Treatment

What Happens When the Brain Loses Its Rhythm? The Discovery That Could Transform Parkinson’s Treatment

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 31, 2025December 3, 2025

When we think of Parkinson’s disease, we often picture the visible signs—shaking hands, slowed movements, and stiffness. But behind these…

Scientists Found a “Calm Switch” in the Brain — And It Runs on Oxytocin

Scientists Found a “Calm Switch” in the Brain — And It Runs on Oxytocin

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 29, 2025December 3, 2025

When the body is calm, the heartbeat slows and breathing settles into an easy rhythm. Under strain — a sprint,…

Can Fat Help Hair Grow Back? New Study Reveals a Hidden Regeneration Circuit Beneath the Skin

Can Fat Help Hair Grow Back? New Study Reveals a Hidden Regeneration Circuit Beneath the Skin

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 28, 2025November 24, 2025

Baldness has always been framed as a permanent loss: once hair disappears, it is gone for good. But science has…

Rapid Tooth Loss Could Be a Silent Death Warning, New Study Finds

Rapid Tooth Loss Could Be a Silent Death Warning, New Study Finds

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 28, 2025November 24, 2025

We tend to think of losing teeth as an ordinary part of growing old — inconvenient, maybe embarrassing, but not…

Did a Common Psoriasis Drug Quietly Slash Long-Term Cancer Risk? New Danish Data Says Maybe

Did a Common Psoriasis Drug Quietly Slash Long-Term Cancer Risk? New Danish Data Says Maybe

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 28, 2025November 24, 2025

Cancer risk is the shadow that follows every long-term immune-modifying therapy. For people living with moderate to severe psoriasis, biologic…

Lack of Oxygen Leaves a Genetic Scar on Immunity, New Study Warns

Lack of Oxygen Leaves a Genetic Scar on Immunity, New Study Warns

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 28, 2025November 24, 2025

Our lungs are not only gateways for air — they are gatekeepers for immunity. When oxygen runs low inside the…

First-Ever DNA “Self-Antibody” Shot Works in Humans, and Its Protection Lasted 72 Weeks

First-Ever DNA “Self-Antibody” Shot Works in Humans, and Its Protection Lasted 72 Weeks

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 28, 2025November 24, 2025

For years, medicine has fought viruses with a straightforward logic: if a patient doesn’t have enough protective antibodies, supply them…

Scientists Find Brain Sends “Stress Bombs” That Ignite Gut Inflammation

Scientists Find Brain Sends “Stress Bombs” That Ignite Gut Inflammation

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 27, 2025November 24, 2025

For millions of people living with inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, the illness is not…

Why ALS Destroys Only One Kind of Neuron — New Study May Finally Explain the Mystery

Why ALS Destroys Only One Kind of Neuron — New Study May Finally Explain the Mystery

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 27, 2025November 24, 2025

ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — is a disease that is as cruel as it is puzzling. It strips people…

Why Your Gray Hair Might Be a Sign Your Body Just Prevented Cancer

Why Your Gray Hair Might Be a Sign Your Body Just Prevented Cancer

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 26, 2025November 24, 2025

Every day, the cells in our bodies are bombarded by harmful influences — ultraviolet rays from sunlight, environmental toxins, metabolic…

Liver Cancer Doesn’t Spread Alone — It Forces Immune Cells to Help, Study Reveals

Liver Cancer Doesn’t Spread Alone — It Forces Immune Cells to Help, Study Reveals

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 26, 2025November 24, 2025

Liver cancer is one of the deadliest cancers on Earth, not because it grows fast but because it spreads silently.…

No Sugar Before Age 2 Could Delay Heart Disease by Years, Study Suggests

No Sugar Before Age 2 Could Delay Heart Disease by Years, Study Suggests

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 26, 2025November 24, 2025

A new study published in The BMJ suggests that the human body does not easily forget what is eaten in…

Your Brain Doesn’t Fully Shut Down When You Sleep — New Study Reveals the Secret

Your Brain Doesn’t Fully Shut Down When You Sleep — New Study Reveals the Secret

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 26, 2025November 24, 2025

Every night, the brain performs a delicate and mysterious maneuver: it withdraws from conscious life without ever going fully offline.…

Scientists Watch Deadly Lung Bug Evolve Live Inside Patients — And Finally Understand Why It Won’t Die

Scientists Watch Deadly Lung Bug Evolve Live Inside Patients — And Finally Understand Why It Won’t Die

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 26, 2025November 24, 2025

Chronic lung infections do not always announce themselves with drama. Sometimes they live quietly for years, weakening patients slowly, surviving…

This Open-Source AI Can See Brain Damage Before Doctors Can

This Open-Source AI Can See Brain Damage Before Doctors Can

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 26, 2025November 15, 2025

The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the known universe. Hundreds of billions of neurons…

Scientists Found the Brain’s “Missing Half” — And It’s Not Neurons

Scientists Found the Brain’s “Missing Half” — And It’s Not Neurons

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 25, 2025November 15, 2025

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a story about neurons. These electrically…

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