Drug overdose deaths have quadrupled among older US adults
In the past two decades, death rates from drug overdoses have dramatically increased among adults 65 years and older living…
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Hitting the snooze button on your alarm doesn’t make you more tired
Snoozing your alarm doesn't make you sleepier, moodier or less cognitively sharp during the day than getting up straight away
Multiple sclerosis genes may have arisen to ward off animal infections
The same genes that cause multiple sclerosis may have protected nomadic herders from catching infections from their animals thousands of…
Light and sound therapy for Alzheimer’s may also prevent ‘chemo brain’
An experimental Alzheimer's treatment involving sounds and flickering lights also prevented a decline in mental sharpness among mice having chemothera
Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago
The fossilised remains of an ancient carnivore provide intriguing hints about how early relatives of mammals began regulating their own…
Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent
Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly…
Your hands are probably about twice as heavy as you think they are
Experiments show that people consistently underestimate the weight of their own hands – a perceptual quirk that could be important…
Gravitational waves produce a background hum across the whole universe
After decades of searching, astronomers have found a distinctive pattern of light, from spinning stars called pulsars, that suggests huge…
Migraines linked to rare genetic variants that could boost treatments
We know that migraines, which are recurrent and sometimes debilitating headaches, have some genetic basis, but the link with our…
Shingles vaccine linked with lower risk of many common heart problems
Shingles is associated with an increased chance of health problems like strokes and heart attacks, but receiving a shingles jab…