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CO2 inhalation flushes Alzheimer's proteins from brain
A small study found that 30 minutes of intermittently inhaling 5% carbon dioxide activates the brain's deep-sleep-like waste-clearance system, flushing Alzheimer's-linked beta-amyloid and tau into the
AI helps mathematician disprove 87-year-old conjecture
Harvard mathematician Levent Alpöge used Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with a tiny counterexample announced in a single tweet, marking the most signific
How to make your vacation's mood boost last months
New psychology research suggests vacation mood benefits last far longer when trips include 'eudaimonic' activities like learning, challenge, and connection rather than pure relaxation — and can be ext
Microglia, Not Plaques, Drive Alzheimer's Sleep Loss
University of Kentucky researchers identified overactive microglia—not amyloid plaques themselves—as the primary driver of sleep disruption in an Alzheimer's mouse model, restoring more than two hours
Collagen loses molecular order before fibers break
An international team led by Hiroshima University has found that skin collagen loses its precise molecular organization long before fibers visibly thin or break — a hidden warning sign conventional im
Fugitive Doctor Posed as Biotech Executive for 20 Years
Ronald Fischer, a former anesthesiologist and Rhode Island most-wanted fugitive, was arrested aboard a sailboat off New Jersey after 20 years on the run from sexual assault charges, apparently having
Math Fix Revives Paraparticles as Third Particle Category
Physicists Zhiyuan Wang and Kaden Hazzard have published a 2025 paper reviving 'paraparticles' — a long-dismissed third category of particles beyond bosons and fermions — by solving a fatal locality p
Rare identical quadruplets born in Australia
A 34-year-old Australian woman has delivered naturally conceived identical quadruplets — all girls sharing one placenta — by caesarean at 28 weeks, in what her doctor calls a one-in-15-million pregnan
Bristol Myers Builds Pharma's Largest NVIDIA AI Supercomputer
Bristol Myers Squibb is assembling what it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the life sciences industry, its third major NVIDIA-powered expansion in three years as the drugmaker doubles down on fo
TD Cowen: AI Cuts Drug Dev Timelines Up to 70%
A new TD Cowen survey of 80 biopharma leaders shows AI is reshaping preclinical drug development — and the implications stretch from lab animals and software markets to U.S.-China biotech competition.
ER Doctor Blames Insurer Denial in Husband's Suicide
In a first-person essay, emergency physician Dr. Joy Evers describes how her husband Randy died by suicide after their commercial health insurer denied continued coverage of his inpatient psychiatric
STAT+: Telemedicine company touted by Novo Nordisk stressed profits over patient safety, ex-workers say
Former employees and two lawsuits by former top leaders allege that LifeMD, a telehealth company promoted by Novo Nordisk on its website, pressured clinicians to churn through prescriptions at the exp
Starwatch: Identifying the Scorpion, mythical adversary of Orion
Stargazers this week can spot Scorpius, the zodiacal Scorpion mythologically destined to oppose Orion across the sky, with a bright gibbous moon sitting close to its red heart star Antares on 24 July.
AI-Altered Bird Photos Threaten Citizen Science Data
Researchers are warning that AI-edited wildlife photographs posted to citizen science platforms are creating false species records, potentially contaminating data used to track biodiversity and climat
UCLA cuts sunscreen's white cast with tetrapod zinc oxide
UCLA researchers reshaped zinc oxide into microscopic four-armed tetrapods to create a mineral sunscreen that keeps SPF 30 protection while leaving far less of the chalky white cast that often deters
Oura Ring Spots Pregnancies Early, Doctors Flag Anxiety
Hundreds of UK women are discovering pregnancies — and some, miscarriages — through fitness trackers before tests can confirm them. Oura and reproductive medicine experts are now warning that the biom
Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Hunter-gatherers transported brown trout to isolated Norwegian mountain Lake Tesse at least 7,000 years ago, making it the oldest documented case of humans moving fish, researchers at the University o
FDA Finds Cyclospora in Taylor Farms Lettuce
The FDA confirmed a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce from a Taylor Farms subsidiary in Mexico tested positive for cyclospora, the parasite behind a multi-state diarrheal illness outbreak that has al
Study: 'The Hum' likely caused by inner-ear tinnitus
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology tested 28 German participants who report hearing "The Hum" — a mysterious low-frequency sound documented worldwide since the 1970s — a
£1m grant funds endangered English shark study
Shark scientists have been awarded nearly £1m by Natural England's Species Recovery Programme to study the migration, habitat, and breeding grounds of three endangered species — blue shark, porbeagle,
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