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…
Eating More Fish May Be Linked to Lower Risk of High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy, Researchers Find
Pregnancy-related high blood pressure, an umbrella term that includes gestational hypertension and preeclampsia, affects roughly 5% to 10% of pregnancies worldwide and can have serious consequences for mothers and babies. Whether eating…
Scientists Confirm a Simple Liquid Can Stop Tooth Decay Without Drilling
For generations, treating a cavity has often meant sitting in a dentist’s chair for drilling and a filling. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have confirmed that a liquid called silver…
Scientists Discover Brain Signal Linked to Multiple Schizophrenia Symptoms
Scientists studying schizophrenia have identified a possible connection between symptoms that appear to have little in common, including difficulties processing sensory information and organizing speech. In a study of 50 participants, researchers…
Your Favorite Songs Could Help With Pain More Than You Realize
Listening to a favorite song during a needle stick reduces physical pain significantly more than soothing spa tracks or total silence. Nobody looks forward to getting poked with a medical needle. The…
“A black hole could eventually evaporate.” Physics is still wrestling with what Hawking’s prediction really means
Black holes are famous for trapping everything that crosses their event horizons, including light. Yet Stephen Hawking showed that quantum physics changes the picture: black holes should slowly emit radiation, lose mass…
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,…