Science

A team of scientists at the Salk Institute have found that a particular kind of immunotherapy was able to train the brain’s ‘invisible scalpel’ on an incurable form of brain cancer in mice. Glioblastoma is the most common form of brain tumor, and while it’s also the most deadly, our brains…

Humans are hardwired to feel good when performing acts of kindness towards others, an imperative trait in any animal that evolves to live and hunt in social groups. This is such a truism that performing random acts of kindness for other people was more effective in reducing symptoms of depression than…

Lizards have the ability to shed their tails to escape predators, after which they will regrow in around 60 days’ time. Although it looks like a normal tail, the original bone is actually replaced by softer cartilage. Now researchers at the Keck School of Medicine in the University of Southern California…

A study recently found a potentially-causal link between habitual daytime napping and total brain volume, which could carry implications for staving off the effects of aging. The difference was not a small one, and it equated to the difference in brain volume between people with normal cognitive function and mild cognitive…

If a new discovery published by South Korean physicists on a pre-print server is proven through replication, it could be one of the most important discoveries in applicable physics. That’s because the team believes they have discovered materials that act as “room-temperature, ambient pressure superconductors.” That’s the physics term; the layman’s…

A trained radiologist assisted by artificial intelligence was able to spot 20% more breast cancers in mammogram screenings without any increase in false positives, a new study showed. Pitting the man-machine team against two trained radiologists, the authors believe it’s the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating the effectiveness of AI-assisted breast…

On one of the British isles of Scilly, the grave of an unknown warrior buried with a sword and mirror had perplexed archeologists for years. Now, thanks to new techniques the interred individual’s identity is finally revealed. She was an Iron Age warrior, likely a raider—someone who specialized in surprise attacks to…