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A man of science locked himself in a 592 square-foot underwater research station for 100 days to document the effects of pressurization on the human body. Now, having emerged from his submerged experiment, scientists studying those effects have discovered a shocking change in the man’s body—he’s 10 years younger. The man,…

GNN is pro-fungus. We report on their value as medicines, building materials, and food, as well as the constantly evolving portrait of their interconnectedness with our world, and the organisms of the forest. Their vast network of roots known as mycelia has now been shown hold a third—yes, a third, of…

Tinnitus, the occasional ringing in the ear representing damage or impairment to the auditory systems, affects nearly 15% of all the adults in the US, but they might soon have the option of a simple at home treatment. Susan Shore, Ph.D. in Michigan Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology, conducted a trial with…

Many laymen will not be aware that science has never been able to X-ray a single atom. The best that current state-of-the-art synchrotron scanners can manage is to X-ray an attogram—about 10,000 atoms—but the signal produced by a single atom is so weak that conventional detectors cannot be used. Until now….

Astronomers have found hundreds of mysterious filaments pointing towards the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, which could uncover fresh secrets about the dark abyss at the centre of our galaxy. The strange horizontal strands are 25,000 light years from Earth and have been likened to spokes spreading out on a wheel….

Researchers say this strange, dome-headed, bristle-bristling dino from 68 million years ago has traces of keratin, what fingernails and rhino horn are made of, sticking up from its skull. The paleontologists who discovered the beast completed a CT scan on the partially-completed skull and revealed these keratin bristles, described as giving…

Hadassah University Medical Center credit AVI HAYOUN
An experimental cancer treatment developed in Israel has become so effective for an incurable form of cancer, the hospital administering it has a waiting list more than 6 months long.
Oncologists at the immunology department at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem used the revolutionary CAR-T,…

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