Scientists once treated the brain like a fortress sealed off from the messy business of digestion, but that wall is crumbling. In labs and clinics, a new picture is emerging where trillions of microbes in the gut can whisper to our mood, our stress responses, and even the way we think. The story isn’t neat ...
Every friend group has one: the person who swears they feel fantastic on five hours of sleep and still beats you to the sunrise. It sounds unfair, even suspicious, until you look under the hood of biology. For years, scientists framed sleep need as a one-size-fits-most rule, and for the vast majority that’s right. But ...
Death and life have been considered for millennia as complete opposites, a binary switch with permanent reversal. But creative new research suggests a possible third state of life whereby cells persistently function, adapt, and even create new life after the death of the organism they belonged to, so defying accepted definitions. Called a “third state,” ...
For years neuroscientists have focused on the brain’s neurons as its principal creators of memory and thought. But what if the reason for our cognitive abilities isn’t in the electrical activity of neurons, but in the quiet, star-shaped cells that connect them? A new research published in PNAS on May 20, 2025, suggests the astrocytes ...
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 ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
