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**Common Nutrients Could Make Alzheimer’s Treatments Safer and More Effective** By University of Waterloo - Published on 25 June 2026 A study found that combining antibody therapy with molecules found in some common foods may make treatment more effective and reduce side effects. Despite decades of research, Alzheimer’s disease remains one of medicine’s greatest challenges. Current treatments can modestly slow the disease but often come with potentially dangerous side effects, leaving researchers searching for safer [...] Read more: #Alzheimers #BrainHealth #Neurodegeneration #CognitiveHealth #AlzheimersResearch #Health #AlzheimersDisease #Amyloid
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**Scientists Discover How the Gut May Trigger Multiple Sclerosis** By Keio University Global Research Institute - Published on 25 June 2026 Scientists have uncovered new evidence that the gut may play a far more active role in multiple sclerosis than previously recognized. For decades, multiple sclerosis (MS) has been viewed primarily as a disease of the brain and spinal cord. But growing evidence suggests its origins may begin much farther away: in the gut. Scientists have [...] Read more: #Science #Technology #MS #MultipleSclerosis #GutHealth #Health #AutoimmuneDisorders #Gut
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**Shingles Vaccine Linked to 24% Lower Dementia Risk in Older Adults** By Juan Siliezar, Brown University - Published on 25 June 2026 New research found that older adults who received the shingles vaccine currently used in the United States were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia within four years. A vaccine designed to prevent the painful viral infection known as shingles may also help protect the aging brain. A new study found that older adults who [...] Read more: #ShinglesVaccine #DementiaResearch #BrainHealth #AgingResearch #Neuroscience #Health #AlzheimersDisease #BrownUniversity
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**The Secret Language Behind Animal Cooperation Across Species** By University of Cape Town - Published on 25 June 2026 Scientists are discovering that animals use surprisingly sophisticated communication to form partnerships and cooperate across species boundaries. Animals from different species often cooperate in ways that seem surprisingly sophisticated. A new review published in Animal Behaviour shows that communication plays a crucial role in making these partnerships possible. According to the researchers, movements, visual displays, [...] Read more: #AnimalCommunication #CooperativeBehavior #CrossSpeciesInteraction #Bioacoustics #AnimalBehavior #Science #AnimalBehavior #Ecology
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scitechdaily 2 weeks ago
**Scientists Finally Solve a 100-Year Mystery About France’s Famous Ice Age Cave Paintings** By Manon Landurant, CNRS - Published on 25 June 2026 A new analysis detected hidden charcoal in black cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume, allowing scientists to accurately date the artworks for the first time. For more than a century, the spectacular cave paintings of France’s Dordogne region have captivated archaeologists, yet one basic question remained unanswered: exactly how old are they? Now, researchers have achieved a [...] Read more: #CaveArt #Archaeology #Paleoclimatology #RockArt #DigitalImaging #Science #Archaeology #Art
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**Scientists Found a Wordle Trick That Solves 99% of Puzzles** By Binghamton University - Published on 25 June 2026 Researchers turned a classic theory of information into a near-perfect Wordle strategy that solves 99% of puzzles. Millions of people play Wordle every day, trying to identify a hidden five-letter word in six guesses or fewer. Now, researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have developed a mathematical approach that can solve the [...] Read more: #Wordle #InformationTheory #PuzzleSolving #Algorithmic #NaturalLanguageProcessing #Science #BinghamtonUniversity #ComputerScience
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scitechdaily 2 weeks ago
**Scientists Recreate a Quantum Mystery in a Water Tank – and Discover Something Completely New** By Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University - Published on 24 June 2026 Scientists used swirling water waves to simulate a quantum effect, uncovering rotating nodal patterns that could deepen understanding of hidden quantum phenomena. In the strange world of quantum physics, particles can be influenced by forces they never directly pass through. One famous example is the Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect, in which electrons are altered by a [...] Read more: #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics #QuantumSimulation #FluidDynamics #WaterWaves #Physics #FluidDynamics #OkinawaInstituteofScienceandTechnologyGraduateUniversity
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**A Hidden Galaxy Called Shadow Blaster May Explain One of Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries** By National Institutes of Natural Sciences - Published on 24 June 2026 A mysterious neutrino signal has led astronomers to a surprising discovery: a hidden star-forming galaxy, not a supermassive black hole, may be generating some of the Universe’s most powerful particles. Astronomers have traced a burst of high-energy neutrinos to an unexpected source. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and a powerful natural magnifying effect [...] Read more: #Neutrinos #Astrophysics #GalaxyDiscovery #ShadowBlaster #StarburstGalaxy #Space #ALMA #Astronomy
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scitechdaily 2 weeks ago
**Why Mars May Remain Uninhabitable for Centuries** By Andy Tomaswick , Universe Today - Published on 24 June 2026 Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle, but the scale of mass, heat, oxygen, and energy required makes it far beyond current capability. Terraforming Mars has always been an intimidating idea. Reworking the environment of an entire planet is an extraordinary challenge, and decades of study by scientists and engineers have led to a [...] Read more: #MarsTerraforming #PlanetaryScience #Astrobiology #SpaceExploration #SpaceEngineering #Space #Astrobiology #ClimateScience
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**Scientists Uncover a Hidden Switch That Helps Colon Cancer Spread to the Liver** By Weill Cornell Medicine - Published on 24 June 2026 A newly identified loss of cellular identity may enable colorectal cancer cells to enter a highly flexible state that promotes liver metastasis. For many patients with colorectal cancer, the greatest threat is not the original tumor but its ability to spread to the liver. Once that happens, treatment becomes far more difficult and survival rates [...] Read more: #ColonCancer #ColorectalCancer #LiverMetastasis #CancerResearch #MolecularBiology #Health #Cancer #Genomics
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**Using Cannabis Could Raise Your Stroke Risk by 37%, Massive Study Reveals** By University of Cambridge - Published on 24 June 2026 Large-scale evidence suggests cannabis, cocaine, and amphetamines may directly raise stroke risk, including in younger adults. As recreational drug use becomes increasingly common, researchers are uncovering evidence that its health consequences may extend far beyond addiction and overdose. A Cambridge-led study analyzing data from more than 100 million people has found that cannabis, cocaine, and [...] Read more: #CannabisResearch #StrokeRisk #NeuroHealth #PublicHealthData #Epidemiology #Health #Cannabis #Cardiology
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**These 3 Common Sleep Habits May Be Aging Your Brain Faster** By Niranjana Rajalakshmi, University of Arizona - Published on 24 June 2026 A large study of more than 23,000 adults suggests that certain sleep habits may be linked to signs of brain aging years later. Sleep habits may influence how the brain ages over time. A new University of Arizona study suggests that several common sleep patterns are associated with signs of brain aging. The study, published [...] Read more: #SleepScience #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingResearch #CognitiveHealth #Health #Aging #AlzheimersDisease
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**Japanese Researchers Unlock a Powerful New Way To Edit and Assemble DNA** By Nagoya University - Published on 24 June 2026 Silver nanoparticles provide a more efficient way to cut and assemble DNA, improving recovery rates and boosting DNA joining efficiency for future gene engineering applications. DNA is made of long chains that carry the instructions living things need to grow and function. In genetic engineering, researchers cut DNA at chosen locations and attach the pieces [...] Read more: #DNAEditing #GenomeEngineering #CRISPR #Nanotechnology #GeneTherapy #Biology #DNA #Genetics
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**Rare Goblin Shark Spotted Alive in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time** By Marcie Grabowski, University of Hawaii at Manoa - Published on 24 June 2026 Scientists have reported the first-ever live observations of the elusive goblin shark in its natural deep-sea habitat, capturing footage at two remote locations in the Central Pacific. Few sharks are as strange—or as elusive—as the goblin shark. With its elongated snout, protrusible jaws, and ancient lineage stretching back nearly 125 million years, the deep-sea predator [...] Read more: #GoblinShark #DeepSeaDiscovery #MarineBiology #OceanScience #Elasmobranch #Biology #Biodiversity #MarineBiology
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**Scientists May Have Discovered How To Heal Damaged Kidneys** By Holly Ober, University of California - Los Angeles - Published on 24 June 2026 Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that appears to block kidney regeneration after injury. The body’s ability to repair damaged organs is surprisingly limited, especially after serious injuries to the heart or kidneys. Now, UCLA researchers have found that a drug originally developed to help heart tissue regenerate after a heart attack may also accelerate [...] Read more: #KidneyRegeneration #OrgansRepair #Biotech #MolecularBiology #Pharmacology #Biology #Biotechnology #Kidney
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**A Plastic Motor Just Defied a Century of Engineering Assumptions** By Institute of Science Tokyo - Published on 23 June 2026 Electrostatic forces enable low-voltage actuation without relying on rare earth materials. Nearly every electric motor in modern life, from the fan on your desk to the motor in an electric vehicle, relies on magnetism. For more than a century, magnetic fields have dominated motor design because electrostatic forces were considered too weak for practical machines. [...] Read more: #Engineering #ElectricMotor #Electrostatics #MaterialsScience #Innovation #Technology #Electronics #Engineering
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**Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Is Bursting With an Unexpected Chemical** By Jill Malusky, National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Published on 23 June 2026 Astronomers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains an unusually large amount of methanol. Every interstellar object that passes through our solar system offers a rare chance to sample material forged around another star. Now, new observations of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed a chemical surprise: the comet is [...] Read more: #InterstellarComet #3IATLAS #MethanolDetection #AstroChemistry #ExoplanetaryScience #Space #Astrochemistry #Comet
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**Scientists Just Found All 5 Genetic “Letters” of DNA and RNA on an Asteroid** By Kliti Grice, Curtin University - Published on 23 June 2026 The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before reaching Earth. A new study reports that samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five fundamental nucleobases, the molecular “letters” of life. Tiny asteroid grains can preserve chemical clues about the ingredients that may have helped [...] Read more: #DNA #RNA #Astrobiology #SpaceExploration #Ryugu #Space #Asteroid #Astrobiology
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**After Decades of Mystery, Researchers Locate a Missing Page of the Archimedes Palimpsest** By Elisa Doré, CNRS - Published on 23 June 2026 A newly identified Archimedes Palimpsest leaf could help recover lost ancient mathematics using modern imaging techniques. A page from one of the world’s most important ancient manuscripts has resurfaced after being missing for decades. Researchers have identified a long-lost leaf from the Archimedes Palimpsest at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, a discovery that [...] Read more: #Science #Technology #Research #Archaeology #DigitalHeritage #Science #Archaeology #CNRS
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**The 4,000-Year-Old City That Defied History’s Rules on Wealth and Power** By University of York - Published on 23 June 2026 A new study of the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro challenges a long-held view of history by suggesting that prosperity did not lead to greater inequality. Unlike ancient Egypt, with its pyramids and powerful pharaohs, or Mesopotamia, with its ruling elites and monumental palaces, the Indus city of Mohenjo-daro left behind few obvious signs of [...] Read more: #Archaeology #Anthropology #IndusValley #MohenjoDaro #HistoricalScience #Science #Anthropology #Archaeology