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A six-month clinical trial found that whole foods are much for effective fuel for weight loss compared to their ultraprocessed counterparts.

Scientists Fed One Group of People Ultraprocessed Foods and Another Group Whole Foods, and the Difference in What Happened to Them Was Wild

A theoretical system known as "WhoFi" can identify individual people through walls with a 95.5 percent accuracy rate.

Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

New research out of Northwestern University found evidence that memories in the brain may be moving around in response to stimuli.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Find Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

Levels of the chemical byproduct TFA have multiplied rapidly over the past few years, as researchers scramble to catch up.

Almost All Rain Drops Contain the Same Weird Chemical

Research shows that the brains of those who use drugs are substantially different than those who don't, well before drugs are actually used.

New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down

A recent survey by a team of nutrition researchers is sounding the alarm on the harm of processed foods, like the beloved hot dog.

Scientists Find that Hosing Glizzies Is Basically a Death Sentence

Scientists have found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses faint luminescent properties.

Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

A new theoretical proposal suggests scrapping nearly everything we think we know about gravity in order to understand the universe.

Physicists Say We Were Completely Wrong About How Gravity Works

After falling ill three miles underground, a nine hour rescue was launched to free a Vanderbilt student from a sprawling cave system.

Science & Energy

Student Researcher Freed From Cave After Becoming Stuck Three Miles Underground

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear reactor.

China Fires Up World’s First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor

As research laboratories struggle to recruit new talent, one Harvard professor is giving his entire salary away to keep his staff.

Harvard Professor Quietly Gives His Lab Workers His Entire Salary Every Year

New research is challenging the assumption that smoking too much weed as a teenager can deep-fry your brain.

Science & Energy

If You Blazed Massive Amounts of Weed as a Youth, Scientists Have Interesting News

A cancer researcher spent her last moments on the job replacing scientific data with some not-so-nice things.

A Cancer Scientist Got Fired and Replaced Their Research Data With Wildest Thing You Can Imagine

A new study reveals that the impacts of AI data centers may include a global increase in cancer and asthma resulting from air pollution.

AI Linked to Growing Cancer Risk

A newly leaked document from the National Science Foundation reveals a long list of phrases which could find your research grant censored.

Leaked Decision Tree Shows How the Government Now Decides What Is Thought Crime

Stalwart journal publisher Springer Nature is asking researchers to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their work.

Artificial Intelligence

The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré