For years, doctors and researchers have known that excess abdominal fat carries risks, and that losing muscle with age can…
This New Study Reveals Why Tanning Beds Raise Melanoma Risk Nearly Threefold
For years, the soft hum of tanning beds promised a quick glow, a controlled slice of summer no matter the…
Earth’s Origin Story May Be Far More Common Than Anyone Thought
Long before Earth had oceans, continents, or even a solid surface, something violent and distant may have quietly shaped its…
This Interstellar Comet Disappeared Behind the Sun and Came Back Looking Different
For a time, Comet 3I/ATLAS was lost to us, hidden in the glare of the Sun as it swept through…
Scientists Discover Giant Sea Predator Lurking in Ancient Rivers
It began with a quiet contradiction buried in the ground of North Dakota. Paleontologists working in sediments shaped by ancient…
The Sea Kept This Secret for 7,000 Years. Now a Lost Wall Has Been Found
For thousands of years, the sea off western France has moved back and forth over a hidden line of stone,…
This One Metabolic Change Reduced Heart Attacks and Deaths Long After Prediabetes
For years, the story of prediabetes has followed a familiar path. Blood sugar begins to rise, doctors sound the alarm,…
Your Microbiome Just Got a Health Score and It May Explain More Than You Think
For years, scientists have known that the human gut is not just a digestive tube but a crowded ecosystem, alive…
Scientists Find That Being Kind to Others May Quietly Make Your Own Life Feel Better
It begins with a simple observation that many people feel but rarely stop to examine. When someone reaches out to…
Scientists Uncover Why Matter Stops Resisting Heat at Absolute Zero
Imagine a universe where heat no longer flows, where atoms quiver less and less until their restless dance finally halts.…
This New Catalyst Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Methane Using Only Sunlight
On a quiet morning at the DGIST campus, a team of scientists peered through microscopes and computer simulations, chasing a…
Scientists Turn Greasy Waste Cooking Oil Into Super-Strong Plastic That Can Pull a Car
In kitchens across the world, gallons of waste cooking oil quietly disappear down drains or gather in dusty bottles, a…
Earth’s Secret Ocean: How Water Survived a Molten Inferno 4.6 Billion Years Ago
Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was a place of relentless chaos. Asteroids hammered its surface. Temperatures soared high enough…
Scientists Discover Polar Bears Are Rapidly Rewriting Their Own DNA as the Arctic Heats Up
The story of the polar bear has long been told as a tale of ice and endurance, a species shaped…
Cats Have Been Hiding a Secret Identity Code — and It’s in Their Purrs, Not Their Meows
For as long as humans have lived alongside domestic cats, the soft, steady rumble of a purr has been treated…
Humans Are More Monogamous Than Gorillas and Chimps — And Closer to Meerkats, Study Finds
For generations, the question of whether humans are truly a monogamous species has hovered over anthropology like a lingering riddle.…
AI Just Cracked One of the Sun’s Biggest Mysteries
For centuries, humanity has watched the sun with a mix of awe and caution, knowing that this glowing sphere in…
This Hellish Planet Orbits in 11 Hours—and Somehow Still Has an Atmosphere
The James Webb Space Telescope has once again turned its unblinking eye toward the cosmos and found something that seems…
Astronomers Find a Real-Life Tatooine Planet Hiding in Years-Old Telescope Data
For years, the data sat quietly in digital storage, untouched, unassuming, and holding a secret no one had yet noticed.…
Astronomers Find a “Cosmic Jekyll and Hyde” Galaxy Hiding a Monster Black Hole in Plain Sight
In the faint afterglow of the early cosmos, astronomers have stumbled upon a galaxy that refuses to behave as it…
Scientists Discover Quasars Didn’t Behave the Same in the Early Universe
For nearly fifty years, astronomers believed they understood how light emerges from the hearts of quasars, those cosmic lighthouses blazing…
Ancient Star Cluster Found Hiding in Messier 74 Has Been Silent for 11 Billion Years
From 32 million light years away, the grand spiral of Messier 74 looks serene, its sweeping arms glowing with fresh…