Millions of people now take GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound. But when researchers let an AI loose on 400,000 Reddit posts from users of these drugs, it surfaced side effects that official studies had largely overlooked. What…
Just as the skin of a drying fruit wrinkles as it shrinks, the planet Mercury has crumpled into ridges and cliffs over billions of years as its interior cooled. But new research suggests the small planet has shrunk far more…
Alzheimer’s disease has been studied for over a century, but scientists keep finding new places to look. The latest discovery takes us somewhere unexpected: not into the genes themselves, but into how DNA is physically folded inside brain cells. When…
Cookies made from plastic bottles sound like a joke – but a NASA-backed team of scientists has made them real. Researchers engineered a special type of yeast that can convert PET plastic and agricultural waste into edible, protein-rich ingredients, then…
Ask a physicist how the universe works, and you might be surprised by the answer – or rather, by how many different answers you get. A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed that the experts studying the cosmos deeply…
Humans have been using mind-altering plants for far longer than recorded history. Archaeologists studying ancient human remains from Sulawesi, Indonesia, have found evidence that people were habitually chewing psychoactive betel nut as far back as 25,000 years ago — the…
One of North America’s most famous Ice Age predators has just lost its name — and its identity turned out to be far more interesting. The extinct “American cheetah,” long imagined as a faster, bigger cousin of the African cheetah,…
Bats have a strange superpower, and it is not echolocation. Some bats live for decades — extraordinarily long for their size — while rarely getting cancer. New research suggests they pull this off by combining two strategies: powerful immune defenses…
Britain’s towering Devil’s Arrows have kept their secret for four thousand years. Now, new research has revealed it: the three giant standing stones in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, were hauled at least 18 kilometers from Brimham Rocks — each one a…
Scientists have found a feather in one of the least glamorous places imaginable: inside a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop, 66 million years old. And this strange little time capsule may help answer one of the biggest questions in natural…