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Facebook Tweet Email Link Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more efficient water seekers than our closest extinct relatives. About 600,000 years ago, modern humans genetically diverged from the lineage that produced …

Accelerating life sciences research  OpenAI Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday. The split court lifted a judge’s order blocking $783 million worth of cuts made by the National Institutes of Health to align with Republican President Donald Trump’s …

Welcome to another weekly update on quantum computing. The sector continues to advance, with notable progress in finance, security, and hardware research. SoftBank Group (SFTBY) made a major investment in Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT) outlined its quantum-safe roadmap, and a team in Sydney showed a new way to shrink qubit use. Each step adds to the picture of how quantum …

Courtesy of the Authors When my grandfather was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2014, I assumed it was pure bad luck—perhaps from some secret misprint wired deep in his genetic code, or something that “just happened” to certain people as they aged. Parkinson’s slowly deteriorates the brain’s basal ganglia (which are in charge of movement control). It caused my grandfather, …

Press enter or click to view image in full size Avi Loeb’s research notes on 3I/ATLAS (August 24, 2025). Before my morning jog at sunrise, I sketched a model for the dust outflow around the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, which appears as a fuzzy glow in the image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025. One of …

Ultra-Processed Foods Aren’t The Real Villain In Our Diets? Here’s What Our Research Found  Study Finds Are UPFs Bad for Weight Loss and Health? It’s Complicated  Medscape How Much Junk Is in Junk Food? AHA Statement Aims for Clarity  TCTMD.com The ‘undeniable’ effects of ultraprocessed foods on your whole health  AdventHealth Nutrition & Sensory Perceptions Promote Overeating Far More Than UPFs, Shows Study  Green Queen …

A supplement already taken by thousands, which costs less than 10p a pill, could help ward of Alzheimer’s disease in women, promising new research has suggested.  British researchers found that omega fatty acids—often found in fish such as salmon or mackerel or available as supplements—could reduce the risk of developing dementia. In the first-of-its-kind study, they looked at the fat molecules in …

How 30 years of NOAA research led to one very accurate and timely tsunami forecast  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov) NASA’s SWOT satellite captures Kamchatka megaquake tsunami in striking detail  ScienceDaily Geology professor breaks down earthquake activity in Carolinas following major earthquake near Russia  WBTV Old clips misrepresented online after Russian mega-quake  AFP Fact Check 8.8 magnitude quake strikes off Russia’s Far …

New Research Suggests An Alarming Relationship Between COVID, Flu And Breast Cancer  HuffPost Respiratory viruses awaken dormant breast cancer cells and raise relapse risk  News-Medical Respiratory viruses like flu, coronavirus may trigger cancer relapse: Study  Business Standard COVID, the flu and other viral infections can re-awaken dormant breast cancer cells, new study in mice shows  Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Source link