Once in a blue moon, Earth’s skies host a ‘blue supermoon’, and the beautifully bright sight is one that you don’t want to miss. Otherwise, you won’t have a chance to glimpse a similar...
There are some special folks among us whose sharp minds defy their advanced years, their brains somehow resisting the slow march of time. There are lots of possible reasons why, from genetics to personality....
We’ve known for some time now that Earth’s days are getting longer as the Moon continues to move away from us at a creeping rate. But there was a time this increasing day length...
A global shortage means some people with diabetes are struggling to access the drug semaglutide, which is sold under the brand name Ozempic. The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has recommended that...
People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for COVID-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long COVID, a US-based study said Friday. The finding was hailed as a potential...
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain implant with at least 100 times more brain connections than devices currently approved by...
Long COVID has more than 200 potential symptoms and can affect almost every organ in the body. With more than 65 million people now estimated to live with this often-disabling condition worldwide, and numbers...
Significant changes in the gut microbiota occur in the earliest stages of Parkinson’s disease, and a new study shows these can start before the onset of symptoms. Narrowing down the culprits in our gut...
For millennia, humans have been trying to stretch our lifespans as far as they will go. We’ve tried freezing, fasting, and herbal remedies galore. Recently, billionaires like Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos...
Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) both seem to impact the oldest parts of the brain in a curiously similar fashion. Using a high-resolution version of magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI),...