Doctors size up patients the old-fashioned way: they walk in, take a look, and form a gut sense of how sick or frail someone seems. Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston…
Feeling Lonely Could Affect Your Heart More Than You Realize, Study Finds
Loneliness and repetitive negative thinking account for nearly half of the emotional distress experienced by heart disease patients, threatening their physical recovery as much as biological risk factors. Cardiovascular disease usually conjures…
New Drug-Free PTSD Treatment Reports 68% Remission Rate in Clinical Trial
A new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder has reported a 68% remission rate in a clinical trial, offering another potential option for people living with PTSD. Developed by California-based Wave Neuroscience and…
“UFOs can travel faster than light.” Why physicists remain deeply skeptical
Some UFO reports describe objects accelerating so quickly that witnesses conclude they must be using technology far beyond anything humans possess. From there, an even more dramatic claim sometimes appears: perhaps these…
Viruses Can Build Themselves Without a Blueprint, and Scientists Just Discovered How
Scientists at the University of Oxford have discovered that the secret to assembling certain viral structures may lie in something unexpected: making mistakes. In a study published in Nature on September 16,…
Excessive Weight Gain During Pregnancy Linked to Serious Complications in Major New Study
Pregnancy comes with recommended ranges for how much weight to gain, and those ranges were developed mainly with the baby’s health in mind. A new study from McMaster University asks what the…
A 10-Year Study Finds Fruits and Vegetables May Help Keep Kidney Patients Out of the Hospital
Two treatments aimed at the same target, with ten years of follow-up, and only one was linked to fewer hospital trips. The trial involved adults with stage 3 chronic kidney disease who…
“Some planets are darker than coal.” Astronomers have discovered worlds that barely reflect light
Some planets beyond our solar system are so dark that they reflect almost none of the light falling on them. Astronomers have found worlds that appear darker than coal or fresh asphalt,…
Could Earth’s earliest history have been completely erased? The evidence may be missing for a reason
According to current scientific estimates, Earth formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, but almost none of the planet’s original surface survives today. The oldest intact rocks are much younger than that scientific…
Scientists Discover How Excess RNA Can Disrupt the Energy Supply Inside Cells
A team of scientists at Texas A&M University discovered that excess RNA can disrupt the machinery cells use to produce energy, even without activating the immune defenses researchers initially suspected were responsible….