Articles for category: Disease & Medicine, News

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Surprising New Study Links Popular Supplement to Cognitive Gains in Alzheimer’s Patients

Jan Otte

Long praised by athletes for its muscle-building properties, creatine is now generating waves for a completely different reason: possible Alzheimer’s disease prevention. A ground-breaking pilot study implies that widely available in health stores, creatine monohydrate could help Alzheimer’s sufferers have better cognitive ability. Although the results are preliminary, they create an intriguing new path in ...

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Climate Change at Net Zero: Why Its Effects Vary Across Regions

April Joy Jovita

New research has revealed that achieving net zero emissions will not eliminate change uniformly across the globe. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions is essential for stabilizing global temperatures, different regions will experience varying climate effects even after net zero is reached. Scientists have used climate models to predict how temperature extremes will evolve, highlighting the ...

Spectacular long exposure of a rocket launch under a clear, starry night sky showcasing the trail.

Why Starship 8 Exploded Mid-Flight And What SpaceX Is Changing for the Next Launch

Jan Otte

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 erupted in fireballs across the Atlantic Ocean on March 6 2025, the show was evident across Florida all the way to the Caribbean and was an eerie reminder of the difficult and gruelling challenges of rocket science. Behind the dramatic nature of the explosion is a fascinating story of engineering-related detective ...

Is Your Catheter Safe? The Bacteria That’s Degrading Medical Plastic From the Inside Out

Jan Otte

Assuming these materials were inert and safe, hospitals have for decades depended on medical plastics used in everything from sutures to catheters. Unbelievably, though, some of the worst superbugs are eating rather than merely colonizing these devices. Researchers have found a strain of the well-known hospital pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa that generates an enzyme able to ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic oddity, dwarf galaxy DDO 68

The Cosmic Dawn: How Dwarf Galaxies Switched the Lights On

April Joy Jovita

New research has uncovered the key players responsible for illuminating the early universe. Scientists have long debated what caused the transition from cosmic darkness to the era of reionization, when light could finally travel freely through space. Recent findings suggest that small dwarf galaxies played an important role in clearing the dense hydrogen fog that ...

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How the Speed of Light Changed Everything We Know About the Universe

Jan Otte

The speed of light was a mystery for millennia, a fugitive constant that escaped measurement and understanding. Now among the most basic foundations of contemporary physics, it shapes our knowledge of space, time, and the very fabric of reality. Light’s speed is more than just a number; it’s a cosmic speed limit, a ruler for ...

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis-Jäger

The Isolated Neanderthals: A Population Cut Off for 50,000 Years

April Joy Jovita

A groundbreaking genetic study has uncovered a Neanderthal population in France that remained completely isolated for 50,000 years. Unlike other Neanderthal groups, which often exchanged genes with neighboring populations, this group remained genetically and culturally separate. The discovery raises new questions about the role of isolation in Neanderthal extinction and challenges long-held assumptions about their ...

A Universe on Purpose? The Physics That Made Life Possible

Jan Otte

The universe shouldn’t exist at least, not in a form that allows life. Yet here we are, thinking, questioning, and marveling at the cosmos. The fundamental laws of physics appear fine-tuned with eerie precision. Alter any one of nature’s constant gravity, the speed of light, the mass of an electron even slightly, and stars wouldn’t ...