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Strawberry Moon peaks 30 June — southern UK sees
The Strawberry Moon, the first full Moon of summer, will reach peak illumination in the early hours of 30 June, with clear-sky chances concentrated across the Midlands, Wales and southern England.
STAT+: AI scientist company Edison Scientific tapped by team behind Metsera to create new biotechs
Edison Scientific, spun off from AI scientist nonprofit FutureHouse with $70 million in late 2025, has been tapped by the team behind Metsera to create new biotechs after big pharma firms—including on
Catherine Climbs Three Peaks for Royal Marsden
Catherine, Princess of Wales, completed the Three Peaks Challenge — climbing England's Scafell Pike, Scotland's Ben Nevis and Wales's Snowdon over one weekend — to raise funds for the Royal Marsden Ca
Over one million children referred for mental healthcare - with anxiety the main reason
England's child mental health referrals climbed 10% in a year to over one million — nearly double 2018-19 levels — with anxiety the leading reason and suspected autism cases surging nearly 50%, the Ch
The Liver Doc: India's Polarizing Hepatologist
Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips, a Kerala-based hepatologist with 300,000+ X followers known as 'The Liver Doc,' has built a national profile publicly attacking alternative medicine — earning both peer-review
Research Exposes 'Additive Bias' in Mental Health
New 2025 research published in Communications Psychology confirms humans default to solving problems by adding rather than subtracting — a bias so strong it infects ChatGPT advice and shapes how we co
Dartmoor Zoo Reintroduces Butterflies Extinct in UK
Dartmoor Zoo has received nine female black-veined white butterflies from Normandy to establish a breeding population in the UK, nearly a century after the species was declared extinct in Britain in 1
Southern Red Wood Ants Reintroduced to Shropshire
Southern red wood ants — a near-threatened keystone species lost from much of the English Midlands — have been translocated to Comer Woods on the Shropshire Dudmaston Estate in a National Trust restor
Massive study links teen marijuana use to double the risk of serious mental illness
A new JAMA Health Forum study tracking more than 463,000 adolescents found that teen cannabis use was associated with roughly double the risk of developing psychotic and bipolar disorders by young adu
DOJ charges 455 in $6.5B health fraud sweep
Federal prosecutors charged 455 defendants with $6.5 billion in false health care claims in a two-week sweep, but the case that defines the crackdown is Florida cardiologist Jason Finkelstein's: he al
Vitamin B12 compound targets glioblastoma in animal
Researchers report that nitrosylcobalamin, a modified vitamin B12 compound, crossed the blood-brain barrier in rats and accumulated inside glioblastoma tumors while synergizing with existing therapies
H5N1 Reaches Australia, Endemic Wildlife at Risk
H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in dead seabirds washed up on Australia's southern coastline, completing the virus's spread to every continent and placing the country's largely endemic wildlife — muc
City of Hope Finds New Stem Cell Behind Middle-Age
City of Hope researchers identified a previously unknown type of stem cell that emerges during middle age and drives the production of new belly fat cells, pinpointing a potential biological target fo
Founder Uses Claude to Avoid Cancer Misdiagnosis
Conno Christou, a health-optimized founder diagnosed with a rare non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, used AI tool Claude alongside 15+ medical opinions to select an aggressive chemotherapy regimen and ultimately
Monsanto Ruling Settles Law, Not Glyphosate Science
In an opinion piece, an epidemiologist argues that the Supreme Court's Monsanto v. Durnell ruling was a legal decision about federal pesticide labeling preemption, not a scientific verdict on whether
Organic Carbon Erosion Amplified Jurassic Warming
A Nature Communications study led by Oxford's Dr. Madeleine Stow finds that organic carbon erosion amplified — rather than buffered — warming during the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event 183 million years a
Glucose suppresses hunger neurons; fructose barely does
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center found that glucose strongly suppresses hunger-promoting AgRP neurons in mice while fructose does so only weakly through a separate gut-brain pathway, w
988 LGBTQ+ Relaunch May Shut Out Trevor Project
The Trump administration is relaunching 988's LGBTQ+ 'Press 3' option by year-end with $33 million from Congress, but The Trevor Project — which handled half the program's 1.6 million contacts — may b
Cassidy 340B Overhaul Bill, Vacirca FDA Finalist
Senate health committee chair Bill Cassidy introduced a bill to restrict the lucrative 340B drug discount program, while the Trump administration zeroes in on oncologist Jeff Vacirca as a finalist to
Two NIH Scientists Charged With Smuggling Mpox Into US
Two NIH scientists face federal charges for allegedly smuggling mpox virus samples into the US from the Republic of Congo in January, triggering a congressional committee's demand for answers from the
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