There really is something to the concept of having a gut feeling. New research out today suggests our bodies can directly sense and communicate with the many bacteria lining our digestive tract. Scientists at Duke University led the study, published Wednesday in Nature. They found that nerve cells can respond in real time to bacterial signals from the gut—including signals …
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Astronomers have spotted a variety of weirdly blinking phenomena out there in the big wide Milky Way through history, but a newly discovered pulsating object truly appears to be one of a kind. Located several thousand light-years away, the object named CHIME J1634+44 is a rare case of a cosmic light that brightens and fades over inexplicably long timescales. A …
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Sadness and depression can feel heavy enough to cause your shoulders to slump and even cause you to feel a faint flush on your face, as if someone turned up the temperature. Many people report the same thing: when the blues roll in, a gentle warmth tags along. Doctors have wondered for decades whether that extra body heat is simply …
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Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it’s an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the world’s greatest discoveries come from happy accidents, even if their stories may be apocryphal. According to a new paper on arXiv, there’s a new story to add to the archives of serendipitous scientific discoveries – Rubin happened to make …
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An Australian lizard in the same genus as the komodo dragon has been found harboring secret bone chainmail under their scaly skin. Goannas – a name that encompasses several Australian species – are not the only monitor lizards with this fascinating adaptation, either. A wild new study has found tens of monitor lizard species sporting hidden osteoderms; tiny bones that …
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Scientists have uncovered the oldest known fossilized animal sperm, found preserved in a 50-million-year-old cocoon from Antarctica. This unprecedented finding pushes back the timeline of such discoveries by a full 10 million years. A Remarkable Discovery in Antarctica The discovery was made by Dr. Benjamin Bomfleur from the Swedish Museum of Natural History and his research team. The sperm, which …
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Paleontologists have discovered the skeletal remains of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named species of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in the Klettgau Formation in Canton Aargau, Switzerland. Articulated skull of the new massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in right lateral view. Scale bars – 5 cm. Image credit: Lania et al., doi: 10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6. The newly-discovered fossil dates back to the Norian age of the Late …
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A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the disks resembles the number eight lying down, similar to the infinity symbol (∞). Because of this resemblance, the researchers—who are based at the universities of Yale and …
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A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic “junk,” may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing on a family of sequences called MER11, researchers from Japan, China, Canada, and the US have shown that these elements have evolved to influence how genes turn on and off, …
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A physical therapist says he had persistent lower back pain for two years, until he discovered this one exercise Fit&Well Source link
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