Science

Magnetic nanoparticles fight bone cancer and help healing

Researchers from Brazil and Portugal have created a new magnetic nanocomposite designed to attack bone cancer while also supporting bone…

7 months ago

Scientists find a safer way for opioids to relieve pain

Scientists at USF Health are making major progress in understanding how new opioid compounds interact with the body to relieve…

7 months ago

Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of salt that can think

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever…

7 months ago

The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut

A new study shows that changes in the gut microbiome can directly influence how the brain works, revealing a powerful…

7 months ago

Everyday chemicals are quietly damaging beneficial gut bacteria

Scientists have completed a large laboratory analysis of widely used human-made chemicals and found that 168 of them are harmful…

7 months ago

A legendary fossil is forcing scientists to rethink human origins

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning…

7 months ago

China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable

Scientists working with China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have successfully reached a long-theorized "density-free regime" in fusion…

7 months ago

Type 2 diabetes physically changes the human heart, study finds

Researchers at the University of Sydney have uncovered new evidence showing that type 2 diabetes directly changes the heart's structure…

7 months ago

Scientists found a way to help aging guts heal themselves

Many people notice that certain foods become harder to tolerate with age. One possible reason is damage to the intestinal…

7 months ago

Fossilized bones are revealing secrets from a lost world

For the first time, researchers have successfully examined metabolism-related molecules preserved inside fossilized bones from animals that lived between 1.3…

7 months ago