| Earth’s Ice Ages May Have Started With a Planet-Wide Ocean Domino Effect | | 2026-10-25 11:07:20 +00:00
 New research suggests that cooling in the Northern Hemisphere may have triggered far-reaching ocean changes that helped drive Earth’s past ice ages. Growing ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere may have helped push Earth into past ice ages by triggering changes in ocean circulation thousands of miles away, near Antarctica. New research from the University [...]
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| Mysterious Brain Signal Linked to Several Schizophrenia Symptoms | | 2026-10-25 02:31:53 +00:00
 A weakened brain signal may offer new clues about schizophrenia and its earliest warning signs. Schizophrenia affects how people perceive their surroundings, organize their thoughts, and communicate with others. Although these symptoms are often studied separately, new research suggests they may be connected to a common disruption in brain activity. In a study published in [...]
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| Snakebites Are Far Deadlier Than We Thought, New Study Reveals | | 2026-10-25 01:21:34 +00:00
 Even fatal snakebites can go uncounted, and a model estimating up to 513,000 deaths annually could help direct lifesaving antivenom to communities that health records miss. Not every snakebite injects venom. When venom enters the body, however, it can cause snake envenoming. This is a potentially fatal condition, and it mostly affects poor rural communities [...]
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| Scientists Studied 865 Humpback Whales and Found They Grow Faster Than Expected | | 2026-10-24 21:48:54 +00:00
 Despite decades of environmental change and population recovery, eastern Australian humpback whales appear to have maintained their historical adult size. Eastern Australian humpback whales grow at an extraordinary pace, reaching approximately 10.9 meters (35.8 feet) in length by age five. By six or seven years old, they have already attained about 90 percent of their [...]
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| Physicists Use Light To Unlock a Crystal’s Hidden Electrical Powers | | 2026-10-24 21:13:43 +00:00
 A crystal’s laser-induced electrical order lasts just a trillionth of a second, giving researchers a way to explore ultrafast approaches to processing and storing information. Inside a crystal, tiny electrical regions can point in different directions or line up in an organized pattern. Cooling helps bring them into alignment, but physicists at Auburn University have [...]
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| Archaeologists May Have Just Discovered the World’s Oldest Shipwreck | | 2026-10-24 20:38:45 +00:00
 Jars from what may be the world’s oldest shipwreck still hold visible residues, offering a chance to identify what Mediterranean traders carried around 4,500 years ago. A shipwreck off the coast of Turkey is the oldest shipwreck in the world, our team of archaeologists believes. There’s little left of the ship itself but based on [...]
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| Dementia Will Cost America a Staggering $818 Billion This Year | | 2026-10-24 17:21:45 +00:00
 Lost quality of life accounts for the largest share of dementia’s estimated $818 billion U.S. toll, offering a broader measure of what better care could preserve. Family members and friends caring for Americans with dementia provide billions of hours of unpaid help, often during their prime working years. Their time, lost earnings, and the physical [...]
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| Popular Sleep Supplement Could Come With an Unexpected Catch, Scientists Warn | | 2026-10-24 16:46:14 +00:00
 A cannabis compound sold to help people sleep caused withdrawal symptoms in mice after just three days of repeated use. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that repeated doses of cannabinol, or CBN, produced tolerance and withdrawal symptoms in mice. The study, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, raises questions about a substance whose [...]
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| Researchers Find That Arthritis May Leave a Hidden Memory in Your Joints | | 2026-10-24 16:11:50 +00:00
 Arthritis may leave a memory in the joints, and mouse experiments suggest stress can reawaken it with help from the body’s heat-producing fat. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can flare in previously affected joints even after the disease has gone into remission. Psychological stress has long been associated with worsening symptoms, but how it might help inflammation [...]
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| New Research Reveals Cows Have a Little-Known Ability To Recognize Humans | | 2026-10-24 13:04:54 +00:00
 A stranger’s face can hold a cow’s attention longer than a familiar handler’s, video tests suggest, offering clues to how cattle recognize the people around them. When cows watched videos of people, they looked longer when the face on screen matched the voice they heard. The finding suggests that these highly social animals, which live [...]
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| These Giant-Headed Ants Are Breaking a Fundamental Rule of Biology | | 2026-10-24 12:29:41 +00:00
 Bigger animals generally have bigger body parts, but new research reveals that certain ants defy this biological rule. In the insect world, bigger bodies usually come with bigger body parts. But some ants break this rule in an unexpected way. A massive soldier ant, equipped with an oversized head and powerful jaws, can have smaller [...]
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