A popular diabetes and weight-loss drug reduced people’s craving for drinking alcohol. The results, from the first clinical trial of its kind, suggest that semaglutide may hold promise as a treatment for problematic
A neutrino from space recently plunged into the Mediterranean Sea with an energy that blows all other known neutrinos out of the water. Packing a punch of some 220 million billion electron volts,
Like rolling into a gas station during a road trip, whale sharks use oil and gas rigs as a pit stop during their migrations of thousands of kilometers across the oceans. The human-made
There’s something scary in the water at Cape Fear. For years, chemicals giant DuPont and the company Chemours, which it spun off in 2015, manufactured long-lasting synthetic chemicals—known as forever chemicals—that made their
Shane Desmond has been taking Wegovy only since the beginning of January, but he’s already noticing benefits. For one, he has dropped about 18 pounds from his starting weight. He’s eating less at
“Dear diary, it was freezing outside today…” If someone today wrote that in their journal, it might seem like an innocuous enough line, perhaps never to be carefully considered again. But what if,
Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis in biotechnology from the University of
Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in Frontiers in Neuroscience, probably doesn’t do much, if anything. But these small muscles are at least
Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders. Think Eeyore and Piglet. Cheerful Piglet is a chronic worrier, coping with anxiety; glum Eeyore mulls
A South Carolina ghost story could have a very earthly explanation. Starting in the 1950s, folks in the Summerville, S.C., area began reporting sightings of strange balls of light floating down a remote
