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What Eight Months of Tracking Revealed About Healthy Aging
Most people learn about their health through occasional doctor visits and yearly blood tests. These checks are useful, but they capture only what is...
Why Walking Gets Harder With Age
Walking may look simple, but every step requires the brain, nerves, muscles, and joints to work together.
New Australian research suggests that this carefully controlled...
Old Heart Drug May Make a Comeback
An old and inexpensive heart medicine may have a new role in modern heart failure care.
Three studies led by researchers at the University Medical...
Scientists Solve Key Mysteries Behind Supernovae and X-Ray Bursts
Scientists have made two important nuclear measurements that could help explain what happens inside some of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
In two...
New Technology Detects Hidden Electrical Faults in Less Than 45 Milliseconds
Electricity substations contain complex protection systems designed to detect problems and prevent equipment damage or power outages.
But some electrical faults can develop quietly, making...
16 Mummies and a Dog Reveal Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Burial Practices
An ancient Egyptian tomb containing mummies, valuable burial objects and even a mummified dog is giving archaeologists a rare look at how burial traditions...
MIT Engineers Turn Bacteria into Living Transistors That Can Compute
Scientists at MIT have engineered bacteria to work like tiny transistors, creating “living circuits” that can process information and perform basic calculations.
The technology could...
Scientists Turn Human Urine into a Chemical That Could Help Store Energy
Human urine might seem like an unlikely ingredient for making chemicals used in energy storage.
But researchers in Australia have developed a new method that...
Expired Credit Cards May Not Be as Dead as You Think
An expired credit card may look useless, but researchers have discovered a security loophole that could allow some old cards to come back to...
Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion...
Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across the sky. But our galaxy has...
Astronomers Discover a Mysterious New Object Called a ‘Black Hole Star’
Astronomers may have discovered an entirely new kind of object in the early universe: something that looks like an enormous star but is powered...
A Cheap Drug Could Help Treat Most Difficult Heart Disease
A medicine that costs only a few cents a day could become more important in treating one of the world's most difficult heart conditions.
New...
Brain May Hold a New Key to Fighting Fatty Liver Disease
The liver may have an unexpected ally in the brain.
Scientists at McMaster University have found that a hormone called GDF15 can start a chain...
The Best Exercise for Joint Health in Older People
Getting older can bring more experience and confidence, but it can also bring stiffer and more painful joints.
Many people respond by moving less because...
Estrogen Use Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
A large study has found an intriguing link between estrogen hormone therapy and brain health in older women.
Women who had used the treatment later...
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Astronomers Discover a Stellar Stream Beyond the Milky Way for the First Time
Astronomers have discovered a faint stream of stars in another galaxy for the first time, opening a new way to investigate one of the...
A Simple Salt-Based Fix Could Make Perovskite Solar Cells Last Much Longer
Perovskite solar cells have the potential to make solar power cheaper, lighter and more versatile.
But one major problem has held them back: they tend...
Astronomers Find Three Giant Black Holes in One Ancient Galaxy for the First Time
Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding supermassive black holes inside a single distant galaxy, something never before seen so far back in the history...
Scientists Discover Strange ‘Slow’ Electrons That Could Transform Computer Memory
Scientists have discovered an unusual state of matter in which huge numbers of electrons appear to move slowly together while maintaining their quantum behavior.
The...
New MIT Coding Technique Makes Some GPU Tasks Nearly Four Times Faster
Researchers have developed a new programming technique that can make some calculations on graphics processing units, or GPUs, nearly four times faster by teaching...