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Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are Finally Revealing What Causes Autism
What if you could diagnose autism not after a child struggles to speak or connect but by watching the disorder...
Stanford Geneticist Warned Humans Are Getting Dumber
Gerald Crabtree, a prominent geneticist at Stanford University, made a startling claim. If an average citizen from Athens around 1000...
Walnut Extract May Help Control Blood Sugar Naturally, New Study Finds
Type 2 diabetes gradually damages the pancreas, where insulin producing beta cells struggle under oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and impaired...
We Can Now Send Thoughts Directly between Brains
March 2026 — In laboratories separated by thousands of miles of ocean and continent, two human beings exchanged a message...
Study Reveals California squirrels are turning carnivores they’re actively hunting other animals for the first time
Something odd happened in a California park last summer. Ground squirrels the chunky, sunbathing herbivores you step around on hiking...
Are Your Bluetooth Earbuds Secretly Messing With Your Thyroid?
You slip in your wireless earbuds for a morning run, a long work call, or that binge-worthy true-crime podcast. They're...
The Animal That Evolved Intelligence Twice Without Borrowing a Single Gene From Us
A throwaway remark about "alien" biology sparked a viral myth. The reality of octopus genetics is stranger and more illuminating...
Fruit Fly Study Challenges 20-Year Epigenetics Theory on Cell Memory
A new study from Umeå University is shaking up 20+ years of thinking in biology. Scientists have long believed a...
What Blushing Actually Reveals About Your Nervous System
Everyone blushes. Or rather, virtually everyone has the capacity to blush though the flush of red is more visible on...
Australian entrepreneur cures his dog’s cancer by uploading its DNA to ChatGPT to design a custom vaccine from scratch
In late 2025, Sydney data scientist Paul Conyngham did something that sounds like science fiction: he helped design the world’s...
POPULAR NEWS
Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastic particles directly into your mouth with every piece you chew
Microplastics are turning up in places researchers never expected: deep-sea sediments, Arctic ice, and human blood. Now, a UCLA pilot...
Yelling Isn’t Just Yelling: How a Hostile Home Rewires a Child’s Brain for Constant Alert
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
72-Hour Fasting Can Reset Your Entire Immune System, USC Study Shows
A 72-hour fast can trigger a powerful immune system reset. Scientists call this stem cell regeneration. The process clears old...
New Studys Says Gen Z is the least sexually active young cohort in modern recorded history
A generation that grew up with dating apps in their pockets, pornography a tap away, and sex discussed more openly...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
EDITOR CHOICE‘S
The Parsimony Criterion in Phylogenetics: Morphological & Molecular Methods
The parsimony criterion is one of the oldest and most widely used methods of constructing phylogenetic trees, having its roots...
Maximum Likelihood Criterion in Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
The maximum-likelihood (ML) criterion is one of the most important and statistically rigorous approaches used for phylogenetic tree reconstruction, first...
Tree Optimization Criteria and Tree Search Methods in Phylogenetics
Distance-matrix clustering methods such as UPGMA and Neighbor-Joining construct a phylogenetic tree directly through a fixed, well-defined algorithm, without explicitly...
Bootstrapping in Phylogenetics – Tree Reliability, Resampling & Bootstrap Values
Bootstrapping is a statistical method used to assess the reliability of a phylogenetic tree, introduced by Felsenstein in 1985. Since...
