A study led by two researchers, both hailing from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, has revealed promise for the common and inexpensive vitamin supplement, niacin (B3), in treatments for the cancer glioblastoma — a condition whose treatment has hardly budged since the 1970s.
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In a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances, funded by the British Heart Foundation, researchers at King’s College in London discovered that urolithin A, a compound associated with foods such as pomegranates, may help the heart relax more effectively as well as reduce scarring and limit harmful enlargement for normal function.
Following the discovery of the previously newest cat species, the pampas cat, in 1923, a new species has been formally named after over 100 years.
Despite the dominant model for the brain holding it as a single organ developing from one early progenitor cell population being at the forefront for decades, new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals the brain may actually be two separate systems that arose separately over hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
According to a new study published in the peer-reviewed Nutrients journal, researchers at Flinders University have uncovered evidence that suggests a connection between negative changes in bone mineral density (BMD) and excessive drinking of coffee in older women.
A new study published in the Nature Communications journal suggests a link between the spread of the toxic, misfolded protein, a-synuclein, and proteins found on dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra, mGluR4 and NPDC1.
Due to Hawaii’s economic and logistical challenges in recycling plastic waste, such as marine debris lingering in its ocean waters, researchers have been pioneering a method for recycling this waste (e.g.
On April 10, 2026 at 8:07 p.m. Eastern Time, the four astronauts crewed on the Artemis II lunar flyby mission splashed down off the coast of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean.
The UK-based Gloucestershire ocean technology firm, DEEP, is continuing progress on its mission to “make humans aquatic” through ongoing testing and research with its underwater vessels, Vanguard.
On April 1, 2026, the Orion spacecraft took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT to kick off NASA’s Artemis II mission: An approximately 10-day flight coursed to slingshot around the Moon and back, marking the first time humans have left Earth to travel to deep space since the series of U.S.