For The Better

A recent article says that despite a recent history of contradictory — and incomplete — evidence, sports physiology is zeroing in on whether lactate sensor technology can improve performance while preventing injury.

Viral infections peak in January and bottom out in June, with worse seasons every second year — an ebb and flow that could help the health-care system plan ahead.

A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull’s scalp lock. This is the first time ancient DNA has been used to confirm a familial relationship between l…

Carbon occurs on the Earth in a variety of structures and forms. Elemental Carbon is usually formed under conditions of high pressure and temperature. Researchers have now, for the first time, identified microorganisms that produce elemental carbon.

A potential drug targets RNA that cause C9 ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Findings from a new study suggest that Europeans were not the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Most of the evidence from the investigation indicates that Indigenous South Americans likely traveled to the Falkland Islands between 1…

New research reveals ancestral puebloans in ancient Chaco Canyon interacted with local ecosystem to thrive for more than a millennium, but unsustainable deforestation practices likely contributed to destabilizing environmental impact prior to their fin…

A discovery opens the door to the development of new drugs targeting malaria, one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet. The researcher teams performed a screen of soil bacteria extracts for antimalarials and identified an extremely potent…

Scientists are using a mathematical model to better understand the immune response to vaccines.

Researchers reveal correlation between ribotype (RT) strains of Cutibacterium acnes, which are found in human skin, and the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Strains RT4 and 8, which are associated with acne in human skin, shortened the …

Researchers describe how energy expenditure and heat production are regulated in obesity through a previously unknown cellular pathway.

New AI model called EVE outperforms other AI methods in determining whether a gene variant is benign or disease-causing. When applied to more than 36 million variants across 3,219 disease-associated proteins and genes, EVE indicated more than 256,000 h…

Based on a total of 8,218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world’s oceans collected between 2000 and 2019, a team of scientists has developed a publicly available dataset for assessing the abundance of microplastics and their long-term trend in th…

An irrigation re-think in sub-Saharan Africa is improving food security, reducing water waste and lifting people out of poverty.