Technology

Common medications may change your gut for years

Medications can influence the community of microbes living in the human gut long after a person stops taking them, according to a large study led by r...

Aug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Bird flu is spreading. Your backyard feeder could make it worse

Backyard bird feeding is one of our country’s most popular pastimes. Research reveals about half of Australian households feed wild birds, with many p...

Aug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

Too much or too little sleep may make your body age faster

A new analysis of biological aging across the human body suggests that both sleeping too little and sleeping too much are associated with faster aging...

Aug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize

Screens are now a routine part of life for many young children, raising growing questions about how early exposure could influence development over ti...

Aug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

Scientists discover a real-life “dragon” and name it after Syrax

Scientists have identified a new species of lizard living in the high mountain forests of western Thailand. The species, Acanthosaura syrax, takes its...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Gut bacteria may unlock a hidden benefit of vegetables

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found that gut microbes can transform nitrate and iron from food into molecules that may help protect agains...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

A major Alzheimer’s risk gene may shrink brain cells years before symptoms

Millions of people carry APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. New research suggests the gene variant may begin alte...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Scientists left this farm field alone. Thousands of orchids appeared

Research led by Professor Carl Sayer at UCL Geography has found that abandoned farmland can recover naturally and develop into a diverse wildflower me...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded

Healthy growth and development depend on tens of thousands of genes being switched on at the right time and in the right place. Specific regions of DN...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

Experimental compound helps burn fat without muscle loss

GLP-1 medications have transformed the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease over the past several years. Drugs sold as Ozempic, Weg...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

Cannabis use linked to 37% higher stroke risk in massive study

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that cannabis, cocaine, and amphetamines are associated with a significantly greater risk of str...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

This common vitamin was linked to 13% better cognitive scores

More than 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's dementia, and that number is expected to climb to nearly 13 million by 2050. New r...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Trump’s border czar Tom Homan says he’s ‘an equal opportunity deporter’ as he denies ICE racial profiling claims

Trump’s border czar Tom Homan says he’s ‘an equal opportunity deporter’ as he denies ICE racial profiling claims‘I deported people to 180 countries la...

Aug 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer screen. "You see it move its e...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Quitting alcohol may prime the brain for relapse

For some, abstaining from alcohol can subsequently increase compulsive drinking. Our research team found that, in abstaining mice, this urge to drink...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Finance

Canadian PM says country ‘at war’ with US on trade and fires back at Trump’s 50% tariffs with retaliatory measures

Canadian PM says country ‘at war’ with US on trade and fires back at Trump’s 50% tariffs with retaliatory measuresCarney said the equivalent dollar-fo...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Sports

It’s never too late for Night School

‘Eagerly exchanging notes on a foreign subject was a feeling I didn’t realize I missed. Connecting with seatmates-turned-friends came naturally despit...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

A66 crash: Seven dead including two officers after collision during police chase on Teesside

A66 crash: Seven dead including two officers after collision during police chase on TeessideTwo police officers who died along with five members of th...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Technology

Massive water cuts imposed on three Colorado River states as rates continue to plunge

Massive water cuts imposed on three Colorado River states as rates continue to plungeThe Colorado River Basin saw the worst snowpack on record last wi...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Finance

Tropical Storm Moke advances toward Hawaii as winds strengthen

Tropical Storm Moke advances toward Hawaii as winds strengthenThe National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Moke has formed in the Pacific OceanBo...

Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read