Latest Reports

Modern Obesity Drugs Offer Powerful Weight Loss but Important Trade-Offs

Modern medicines for obesity have changed the way many people think about weight management. Several drugs can now help patients lose much more weight...

Study Shows Parks And Birdsong Can Lift Your Mood

A simple walk in a park may do more for your mood than you realize. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that...

Scientists Discover Clue That May Predict Aggressive Multiple Myeloma

A newly discovered protein may help doctors spot the most aggressive cases of multiple myeloma before the disease becomes harder to treat. Researchers from the...

The Milky Way flipped its disk billions of years ago

The Milky Way is ancient, and its first stars formed shortly after the Big Bang. It's been through a lot in its long life,...

Ancient marine animals began living in empty shells 470 million years ago

Around 470 million years ago, life in Earth's oceans took an important evolutionary step when marine animals began moving into empty seashells for the...

New acoustic chip could supercharge 6G, satellite phones and quantum technologies

Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a new type of acoustic chip that can handle more than...

Elephant-inspired cement tiles could keep buildings cooler without using electricity

Researchers have created a new type of cement tile inspired by elephant skin that could help buildings stay cooler without relying on air conditioning. The...

Bizarre Jupiter-Mass Exomoon Challenges Everything We Know About Planetary Systems

Astronomers have found what may be the first convincing evidence of a giant "exomoon" beyond our solar system, but the unusual object is already...

The Secret Behind Semaglutide’s Long-Term Weight Loss Success

New research suggests that semaglutide helps people keep eating less for more than a year, even if they no longer feel the dramatic loss...

This Type of Sitting May Harm Your Brain Most

Television has entertained families for generations, but spending many hours in front of the screen may come with an unexpected cost. A new study suggests...

Swimming Proven to Ease Chronic Back Pain in Major Study

An Australian study has found that swimming can be an effective way to reduce pain and disability caused by chronic low back pain. The research,...

Popular Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Faster Brain Aging

Replacing sugar with low-calorie sweeteners has become a daily habit for millions of people around the world. Many believe these products are automatically healthier...

Study Finds a Big Hidden Trick Used by Pancreatic Cancer

Scientists have uncovered an important reason why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to treat with immunotherapy. Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School found...

Most High-Risk Adults Miss New LDL Cholesterol Targets

A major new study suggests that the United States faces a much larger cholesterol treatment gap than many experts expected. Researchers found that a large...

Birdsong and Green Spaces May Be the Best Ways to Boost Mental Health

Spending time in nature has long been linked to better mental health, but scientists are still learning exactly why. A new study from North Carolina...

Week's Top

Editors Picks

Scientists build world’s first commercial-size indium-free tandem solar cell

Scientists have developed a new type of high-efficiency solar cell that replaces the rare and expensive metal indium with much cheaper tin, an advance...

Webb Telescope finds hidden giant planet in one of the galaxy’s best-known star systems

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a giant planet that had been hiding in plain sight within one of the most closely studied...

Tiny new chip could bring powerful terahertz technology into everyday devices

Scientists have taken an important step toward making powerful terahertz technology much smaller and more practical by fitting many of its key functions onto...

Scientists are ‘listening’ to black holes to test Einstein’s theory and search for new...

Black holes are famous for swallowing everything that comes too close, including light. But when two black holes collide and merge, they briefly produce something...

Ancient Maya wall reveals the name of a 1,200-year-old astronomer for the first time

For the first time, researchers have identified the name of an ancient Maya mathematician and astronomer thanks to a remarkable set of writings discovered...