Why Alzheimer’s Scientists Are Re-thinking the Amyloid Hypothesis
For decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive ...
An Obscure Virus Is Spreading in China. It's Not Cause for Alarm
Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...
Watch: This Caterpillar Builds a Home Out of Grass
As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home by weaving silk, which the caterpillar uses ...
Lead Pollution Was Likely Widespread in the Roman Empire
Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...
Microplastics Are Widespread in Pacific Northwest Seafood
The tiny particles that shed from clothing, packaging and other plastic products are winding up in the fish that people eat, ...
Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Relied Heavily on Starchy Plants for Food
A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...
Why Having Kids Is Ethical
What are the risks of not having enough children? In today’s landscape, there are questions about whether or not it’s ethical to bring children into a volatile world, but w ...
Did Climate Change Really Bring Down the Eastern Roman Empire?
Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...
Even Small Diet Tweaks Can Lead to Meaningful Weight Loss
It’s a well-known fact that to lose weight, you either need to eat less or move more. But how many calories do you really ...
Research Opens the Door to Circuits in Human Cells
Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human ...
The Oldest-Known Evolutionary 'Arms Race'
A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil ...
Hydrogen Hype Is Dying, and That's a Good Thing
Over the past decade, governments all over the world have invested heavily into the hydrogen economy, that is the idea to use hydrogen to store and transport energy from inte ...