A 42-year-old childhood obesity theory may be wrong
New research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6. Alt…
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New research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6. Alt…
A black hole observed during a dramatic 2023 eruption did not simply devour gas from its nearby companion star. It also expelled large amou…
A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to anal…
Scientists traced a mysterious surge of low-energy gamma rays from zinc-70 to magnetic changes occurring inside its nucleus. The breakthrou…
Researchers have uncovered a possible biological pathway connecting obesity to Alzheimer’s disease. Obesity appears to raise levels of cert…
Keeping a regular daily schedule may help reduce pain and depression, especially among older adults with insomnia. Researchers found that c…
Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all.…
As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade system…
More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisi…
A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago in what is no…
Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplo…
Ultrafast X-rays revealed how a molecule converts absorbed light into motion in just trillionths of a second. Individual atoms recorded dif…
Songbirds appear to have evolved through rare explosions of change separated by long periods of slower development. Many of those bursts li…
Signals traveling from the gut to the brain may help turn meals into lasting memories. Rats showed stronger memory activity after consuming…
Bumblebees naturally have short lives, but extreme heat and human activity are making survival harder. Pesticides can poison bees or destro…
Rice University chemists have found a new way to make neodymium, a rare-earth metal, interact with oxygen. Using a specially designed molec…
A new cooking method could make French fries crispier in less time while significantly limiting how much oil they absorb. Researchers propo…
Sleeping well during a heatwave starts with stopping the home from overheating. Close blinds against strong sunlight, ventilate when the ai…