A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial tested a four-day oral supplement, “FoTv,” which is made from the mycelium — the root-like network — of two types of mushrooms:…

A new study examining regional snow cover trends across the Northern Hemisphere found seasonal shifts in snow - and a lot less of it. The authors used the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab Northern…

A bad liver today currently means a replacement, but having enough transplant organs is challenging when families worry their loved ones' skeletons could be sold to middle schools and end up…

A cohort analysis of preschoolers in Canada has led the authors of the paper to call for bans on so-called "ultraprocessed" foods, charging that it will lead to long-term mental health and well…

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind blind”. The phrase…

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A new…

By this time 26 years ago, the "Dot-Com Bubble" was ready to burst. People who wanted to raise investor money claimed that they could sell anything affordably on a website; three companies were…

Once the weather got political, more attention became focused on the cyclical climate phenomenon El Niño. Critics charged that too many early models were shaped by understating its effects while…

For many people living with psoriasis, the red, scaly skin patches are only part of the story. Another challenge is the uncertainty about whether there is anything they can do themselves to help…

These days I am putting the finishing touches on a hybrid algorithm that optimizes a system (a gamma-ray observatory) by combining reinforcement-learning with gradient descent. Although I published…

A new paper says that players where a few superstars get the money leads to less cooperation and poor team performance. The authors say this salary compression is why teams won fewer games. The…

In 2026, it is easy to feel intellectually knocked around by all of the health claims you read, and all claiming to be supported by science. Weedkillers causing cancer, food coloring causing diabetes…

In late January 2026, New York Magazine published a striking piece of cultural reporting: wellness clinics, influencer funnels, and WhatsApp “consultants” selling the dream of brighter skin, faster…

Olympians Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu are both Americans but have Asian descent. Yet Kim competed for her country in 2018 while Gu chose to instead compete for Communist China, which does not allow dual…

Glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, is treated with surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible and then radiation and chemotherapy. Like all cancer, that may not be the end of it. Sometimes,…

Governments and insurance companies are scrambling with solar power actuarial tables that are far outside what rosy marketing estimates claimed would result. Because enginees and scientists were…

Governments and insurance companies are scrambling with solar power actuarial tables that are far outside what rosy marketing estimates claimed would result. Because enginees and scientists were…

A study has been making the rounds and has been published in BJSM. It is a meta-analysis of various research, providing strong scientific evidence focused specifically on sports. I don't think it…

Valentine's Day is when the social sciences get to shine. It's when people revisit things about the science of kissing (kissing is good, unless it's bad) by anthropologists like Dr. Helen Fisher(1)…

Valentine's Day is when the social sciences get to shine. It's when people revisit things about the science of kissing (kissing is good, unless it's bad) by anthropologists like Dr. Helen Fisher(1)…