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Weight-loss wonder jabs such as Mounjaro and Wegovy are helping to transform the lives and health of millions. But one in five users stop taking these drugs within a year, due to intolerable side-effects ranging from nausea and vomiting to gallstones and pancreatitis – a serious infection of the pancreas. The majority then pile weight back on, as studies show …

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine creatures with a distinctly phallic appearance. There are more than 20 known species living across the world’s oceans today, as well as a number …

Officials say the invasive Asian longhorned tick has been found in Maine for the first time. The tick was found in Cumberland County. The tick was submitted through University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s passive tick surveillance program and identified by staff at the UMaine Extension Tick Lab. UMaine says this marks the first known occurrence of the species in the …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for “morning star” — may be a star cluster, a group of stars that are …

The story of human evolution is not a simple ladder from early forms to more advanced ones. For decades, fossils shaped a picture of steady, linear progress – one form giving rise to another in a neat sequence. But science often rewrites its narratives when new evidence appears. Now, remarkable finds in Ethiopia are challenging long-held assumptions and painting a …

The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for “morning star” — may be a star cluster, a group of stars that are bound together by gravity and formed from the same cloud of gas and dust, new research suggests. Discovered by …

Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a cruise ship on March 24, 1999 (Image: Netflix) The cameraman aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, where Amy Bradley was last seen, shared the moment he found the final footage of the missing woman. Amy Lynn Bradley disappeared on March 24, 1998, while vacationing on the Rhapsody of the Seas with her family. She …

Cause of sea star wasting disease finally discovered, raises new questions  Cascadia Daily News Billions of Sea Stars Are Wasting Away, And We Finally Know Why  ScienceAlert Scientists Find Answer to Sea Star Population Devastated by Pathogen Along the California Coast  Good News Network How scientists solved one of the greatest ocean mysteries  The Independent Unmasking the sea star killer  Canadian Geographic Source link

An unassuming green alga that has lived quietly in laboratory flasks for decades just revealed it carries a giant virus so large, and so stealthy, that nobody had noticed it before. The find rewrites what scientists thought they knew about how big a virus can grow while still hiding inside a single-celled host. The work, led by Maria …

Molecules capable of forming the precursors to sugars and amino acids have been detected, for the first time, in the disk of dust and gas whirling around a newborn star. The detection is tentative, but it offers a window into how complex life gets its start from the chemistry in space, not just before planets are born, but even before …