A simple blood draw may soon help answer one of the most difficult questions in Alzheimer’s disease: When will symptoms start? In a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers report that levels of a specific protein in the blood can help…
Running can be a great way to keep the body moving and to stay in shape. But extreme endurance running, or ultramarathon running, can also have adverse effects on the body, including damage to red blood cells that can impair their function.
A new…
For millions of households, cats are family. Now, new genetic research suggests they may also help scientists better understand cancer.
In a study published in Science, researchers analyzed tumors from nearly 500 pet cats across five countries,…
Eight skiers were killed, and one remains missing after a massive avalanche tore through a popular winter tourist area north of Lake Tahoe on Feb. 17, 2026, marking the deadliest single avalanche in the United States in 45 years.
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Household cats could help us understand how breast cancer develops in humans.
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A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen before on this kind of dinosaur.
Paleontologists have named it Spinosaurus mirabilis, meaning ‘wonderful spine lizard’….
A curved slab of bone pulled from a remote fossil site called Jenguebi, deep in Niger’s central sand sea, revealed something paleontologists had not seen in more than a century: a new species of Spinosaurus, described this week in Science.
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For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves”
Construction workers in Cologne, Germany, have unearthed a significant Roman site dating back…
