A small study shows heavy drinkers drank less while taking semaglutide Semaglutide, a key ingredient in the popular weight-loss and diabetes treatments Wegovy and Ozempic, might reduce alcohol intake,...
The human-made structures act as artificial reefs, luring the plankton the giant fish like to eat A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) can eat up to 20 kilograms of plankton each day. Ben D’Antonio Like ro...
500-year-old records document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania Researchers used texts like these to discern what it was like to live through the Little Ice Age in Transylvania, a ...
By mid-century, lots of spots around the globe could hit temperatures hazardous for human health If global temperatures average 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, many parts of the world ma...
But these wee tugs on the ear probably aren’t helpful today Listening intently activates tiny ear muscles, the same ones that allow some people to wiggle their ears, a new study show. Lucy Lambriex/Di...
Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders. Think Eeyore and Piglet. Cheerful Piglet is a chronic worrier, coping with anxiety; glu...
Gases that rise from the earth could explain sightings of floating balls of light The slight offset in this railroad track located between Charleston and Summerville in South Carolina may have been cr...
Gibellula attenboroughii was spotted by a BBC documentary team A spider with an early infection from the fungus Gibellula attenboroughii hangs from the ceiling of a cave in the Republic of Ireland. Ti...
Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing. But underneath it all, he suffered – for years – from severe depression. His suffering was so great that he v...
The blast challenges theories of how these flashes form The CHIME telescope array in Canada, shown here, detected a fast radio burst coming from an unusual location. CHIME, Andre Renard/Dunlap Institu...
Canute, king of England during the 11th century, achieved legendary status by ordering his servants to carry his throne to the shore, whereupon he ordered the tide to stop rising. When the ocean did n...
Life of the party Margaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United States to earn a Ph.D., overcame racism and sexism to become a field biologist and termite expert, life science...
