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Rewriting History: Researchers Uncover a Forgotten Amazon Civilization That May Have Housed 3 Million People
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (390+ words) For nearly 1,500 years, the Aquiry civilization shaped southwestern Amazonia, and new research suggests it supported a much larger population than previously believed....
New Research May Change How We Think About Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (696+ words) Why do drugs like Ozempic produce far greater and more lasting weight loss than older appetite suppressants? Scientists are beginning to uncover an unexpected answer in the brain. Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications, may owe…...
Coffee Drinkers Show Surprising Differences in Fat, Muscle, and Hormones
14+ hour, 15+ min ago (215+ words) Habitual coffee consumption was associated with differences in body composition, metabolism, and sex hormones, but causation remains unproven. Researchers at the University of Oulu analyzed information from 2,264 people aged 46 who participated in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966. They examined whether…...
Researchers Discover a Potential Weak Spot in One of the Deadliest Brain Cancers
22+ hour, 40+ min ago (354+ words) Targeting SET may make glioblastoma more responsive to radiation and chemotherapy. Rather than replacing radiation or chemotherapy, the strategy is intended to make glioblastoma more vulnerable to them. In preclinical models, suppressing SET prevented tumors from developing, making it the…...
New Treatment Targets Gum Disease Without Killing Good Bacteria
23+ hour, 50+ min ago (471+ words) A targeted light-activated therapy may treat periodontitis without disrupting the beneficial bacteria that help maintain oral health. Treating periodontitis presents a difficult balance: harmful bacteria need to be removed without wiping out the beneficial microbes that help maintain a healthy…...
New Museum Discovery Shows Evolution Keeps Reinventing the Seahorse
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (837+ words) CT scans and DNA revealed that Australia’s rare sea muppets only look like seahorses and actually belong to a separate evolutionary lineage. A tiny fish from southern Australia could easily be mistaken for a seahorse. Its head bends downward in…...
Scientists Discover Hermit Crabs Doing a Job No One Expected
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (786+ words) A parasitic plant on a Japanese island has found an unlikely way to send its offspring into the world. It appears to enlist wandering hermit crabs. For years, one basic question remained unresolved: Where do all those seeds go? The…...
Scientists Discover a 245-Million-Year-Old Reptile With Its Organs Still Preserved
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (405+ words) An international research team examined a unique fossil from China that, for the first time, preserves the digestive system of a marine reptile with a long neck that lived in the oceans 245 million years ago. Inside an almost complete fossil…...
Scientists May Have Solved a Long-Standing Melanoma Treatment Mystery
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (655+ words) With cancer treatment, when a drug is given may matter almost as much as which drug is used. For years, melanoma researchers have faced a frustrating contradiction. Experiments suggested that periodically stopping certain targeted drugs might help keep resistant cancer…...
This Flesh-Eating Fly Is Back in the U.S.??? Scientists Are Tracking Where It Could Strike Next
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1173+ words) A wound no bigger than a tick bite can be enough for New World screwworm to take hold. A female New World screwworm fly can deposit hundreds of eggs at a time in an animal’s or person’s wound. When those…...