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New weekly obesity drug shows up to 20% weight loss
A new clinical trial has found that a once-weekly injection of eloralintide, a new experimental drug, led to weight loss of up to 20%...
Can brain training really shave ten years off brain ageing, as a recent study...
A ten-week online brain training programme helped older adults’ brains act as though they were a decade younger, a recent study has found.
Much like...
Air pollution and climate stress may cause Alzheimer’s
A groundbreaking new study has found that air pollution and climate stress could be key risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease — but it also...
Astronomers discover a superheated galaxy building stars at record speed
Astronomers have found a distant galaxy that’s building stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way—offering a new clue to how galaxies grew...
Ancient wallaby’s strong legs paved the way for kangaroo evolution
Australia’s kangaroos and wallabies are famous for their powerful hops, but how did they develop such extraordinary legs?
New research from Flinders University has uncovered...
Why self-driving car companies hide crash data—and how they could share it safely
Self-driving cars have been tested on public roads for decades, from San Francisco to Pittsburgh and beyond.
Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology promises safer roads and...
How life first got moving: Scientists reveal nature’s earliest motor
Billions of years ago, long before animals, plants, or even complex cells existed, tiny bacteria developed one of nature’s first engines.
This ancient motor allowed...
Princeton builds a qubit that lasts 1,000 times longer than today’s chips
In a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computers, engineers at Princeton University have created a superconducting qubit that lasts over one millisecond—three times longer...
Continents slowly “peel away” to create ocean volcanoes, study finds
A team of Earth scientists has discovered that continents are slowly peeling apart from below—sending fragments deep into the oceanic mantle, where they can...
How cloud-dwelling microbes could help us find life on other worlds
Clouds may seem like a barrier when looking for life on distant planets, but new research shows they could actually be the key.
Scientists at...
Study finds a new early warning sign of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world, and experts warn that by 2030, it could become the second leading cause...
How gut bacteria and a high-fiber diet help fight deadly skin cancer
Scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Australia have discovered how gut bacteria help the body’s immune system fight one...
Even ‘normal’ blood pressure in your 30s could raise heart disease risk later in...
A new study has found that even people with “normal” blood pressure in their 30s may face a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes,...
New blood test could help predict ovarian cancer treatment outcomes
A new clinical study has discovered a blood test that may help doctors predict which women with ovarian cancer are more likely to respond...
Scientists find a new hidden cause of dementia in the brain
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered that harmful molecules known as free radicals—produced inside specific brain cells called astrocytes—could play a major role...
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Giant stars may have forged the universe’s oldest star clusters, study finds
Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular clusters—came to be.
Now, an international research...
Tiny neural implant smaller than a grain of salt can track brain activity for...
Scientists have created a brain implant so small it can sit on a grain of salt—yet powerful enough to wirelessly record brain activity for...
Astronomers witness brightest and most distant black hole flare ever recorded
Astronomers have captured the most powerful and farthest black hole flare ever recorded—a cosmic light show so bright it outshined 10 trillion suns.
The flare,...
Ancient DNA reveals a 40,000-year story of human–Denisovan interbreeding across Eurasia
New genetic research has shed fresh light on one of the most mysterious chapters in human evolution—the relationship between modern humans and Denisovans, an...
Ancient stone tools from Kenya reveal a turning point in human evolution
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have uncovered one of the oldest and longest-lasting collections of stone tools ever found—evidence that early humans had already...