Happiness in your 70s is often described as if it were a personality trait: some people arrive there cheerful, and everyone else has to make do. The research on ageing paints a quieter picture. There is no single formula for …
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The lettuce supplier at the center of the turbo diarrhea outbreak has spent millions of dollars to sway sentiment around food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans, according to public filings. Taylor Farms donated more than $2 …
Pompeii is best known as a tomb. The ancient Roman city’s inhabitants were instantly encased in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, their last breaths suspended in time. But a new documentary series tells a different story: one …
More than one in 10 Americans takes a GLP-1 medication for weight loss. As more people take a GLP-1, or glucagonlike peptide 1, receptor agonist, such as Wegovy, so, too, do more older adults—and those numbers are set to skyrocket. …
The phrase “I could die of happiness” is not meant to be taken literally. But as it turns out, you actually can – though it is exceedingly rare. A new case study, published in Oxford Medical Case Reports, tells the …
Commonly used sweeteners can directly interfere with the growth of bacteria that help support a healthy gut, according to laboratory research from the University of Cambridge. The strongest effect appeared when researchers combined isosteviol, a sweetener used by the food …
Two physicists have used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to solve a stubborn mathematical problem in physics that had vexed researchers for more than a decade. Their solution, described July 1 in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, came …
America and Hollywood might feel like the natural home of sci-fi, but Britain has quite the science fiction pedigree of its own. Doctor Who is obviously our great nation’s most famous sci-fi export, standing tall amongst the other giants of …
On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat still while medical sensors recorded the electrical activity of her heart, brain, eyes and muscles. She was making a physiological portrait for the Voyager Golden Record, the message from Earth that would soon …