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Your Waist May Reveal Hidden Health Risks
A tape measure around the waist may tell doctors more about a person's health than many people realize.
New research from Rutgers Health suggests that...
Your Sleeping Brain Could Reveal Future Dementia Risk
Dementia affects millions of families around the world and becomes more common as people grow older.
Doctors have effective ways to diagnose dementia after memory...
A Soft Patch Could Change How We Treat Sleep
For people with chronic sleep problems, treatment often means medication, behavioral therapy or changes in daily habits.
Researchers in Texas are exploring a very different...
A New Way to Stop Lung Cancer Before It Starts
Lung cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers in the world.
Smoking is its biggest cause, but people who have never smoked can also develop...
Weight Loss Drugs May Do More Than Cut Weight
Medicines first developed to improve blood sugar control have quickly changed the treatment of obesity.
Now scientists are finding that GLP-1 drugs may affect far...
Cancer-Fighting Gum Targets Harmful Mouth Microbes
A specially designed chewing gum could one day become an unusual tool in the fight against some head and neck cancers.
Researchers at the University...
Tiny Boats and Flying Robots Can Now Be Powered by Sound
The simple physics that makes a bottle hum when you blow across its opening has inspired a new way to power tiny robots.
Researchers have...
A Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Where Water Once Hid on Mars
Mars may look like a dry, dusty world today, but billions of years ago, water interacted with its rocky surface.
Now, scientists have found new...
New Ribbon-Shaped Optical Fiber Is 1,000 Times More Sensitive to Pressure
Optical fibers are best known for carrying huge amounts of internet data at high speed.
But scientists are increasingly finding ways to use these tiny...
Scientists Develop a New Way to Build Tunable Semiconductor Lasers
Semiconductor lasers could become more flexible and reliable thanks to a new design that breaks away from the repeating patterns traditionally used to control...
Scientists Find Cleaner Way to Recover Gold from Electronic Waste
Discarded phones, computers and other electronics contain valuable metals, including gold.
Recovering those metals, however, often requires large amounts of chemicals that can create waste...
Poor Kidney Function May Increase Vision Loss in Older People
A new review suggests that healthy kidneys may play an important role in protecting eyesight as people age.
Scientists found that people with chronic kidney...
Scientists Find Fast, Needle-Free Way to Stop Cavities
Cavities in young children are often treated only after they become painful, but a new study suggests there may be a much simpler solution.
Researchers...
Why Cholesterol Drugs Statins Can Cause Muscle Problems
Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and statins are one of the best tools doctors have for lowering that...
Can a Diabetes Pill Help Treat Alcohol Addiction?
Scientists may have discovered an unexpected new use for one of today's best-known diabetes and weight-loss medicines.
A new clinical trial suggests that oral semaglutide...
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Why Batteries Age Even When You’re Not Using Them
We usually think batteries wear out because we repeatedly charge and use them.
But batteries spend most of their lives doing nothing, and new research...
2-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Could Rewrite a Key Chapter in Earth’s History
Around 2 billion years ago, Earth was going through one of the most important transformations in its history.
Oxygen was becoming abundant in the atmosphere,...
Astronomers Release the Largest 2D Map of the Universe Ever Made
Astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional color map of the universe ever created, containing an extraordinary 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion stars,...
Your SIM Card Could Become a Hidden Door into Your Phone, Car or EV...
SIM cards are normally trusted parts of our phones and other connected devices.
But new research shows that if a SIM card is malicious or...
Rare Mars Meteorite Fills a 2-Billion-Year Gap in the Red Planet’s History
A rare meteorite from Mars is giving scientists a new look at a mysterious period in the Red Planet’s history.
Researchers at Boston College have...