Record temperatures in 2024 on land and at sea have prompted scientists to question whether these anomalies are in line with predicted global heating patterns or if they represent a concerning acceleration of climate breakdown. Heat above the oceans remains persistently, freakishly high, despite a weakening of El Niño, which has ... Read More »
Two New Rare Covid Vaccine Side Effects Revealed By Global Study of Over 99 Million People
A global study of over 99 million people across eight countries has identified two new harmful but very rare side effects of Covid-19 vaccines, an advance that could lead to better health monitoring of immunised people. Researchers part of an international collaboration called the Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) hosted at the University of Auckland ... Read More »
Tiny Lab-Made Proteins ‘Hold Great Promise’ to Treat Alzheimer’s
A breakthrough with a new class of lab-made proteins “holds great promise” in enhancing the body’s defence against neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. These lab-made protein polymers can enhance the body’s antioxidant response, known to be crucial for protection against many debilitating neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ... Read More »
Scientists Find 85 Planets That Could Be Home To Alien Life
Astronomers have found 85 possible planets that could be home to alien life. The distant worlds – which themselves are not yet confirmed – are thought to have temperatures that would make them cool enough to sustain life, the scientists who find them say. The exoplanets are similar in size to Jupiter, Saturn ... Read More »
New Drug Offers Hope to Patients With Life-Threatening Heart Condition
People diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition have been given fresh hope thanks to a ground-breaking new drug, researchers say. A study shows that patients with transthryretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, (ATTR-CM), now the most commonly diagnosed form of amyloidosis (protein build up in the body), benefited significantly when they took the drug ... Read More »
Earth On Verge Of Five Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Warn
Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned. Five important natural thresholds already risk being crossed, according to the Global Tipping Points report, and three more may be reached in the 2030s if the world ... Read More »
Consistent Lack of Sleep May Increase Risk of Future Depressive Symptoms
Consistently sleeping less than five hours a night could increase the risk of depression, research suggests. Poor sleep has been considered a side-effect of mental ill health in the past, but the new study found that the link between sleep and mental illness is more complex. People with a stronger genetic ... Read More »
One Of World’s Greatest Physics Mysteries Finally Decoded
Physicists have answered the long-standing question of whether antimatter falls up or down under gravity, an advance that could help crack one of the biggest mysteries of why almost everything in the universe is only made of matter. The new study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that antimatter falls downwards under gravity – as ... Read More »
New Vaccine Could Be Key to Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, Scientists Say
A new vaccine that targets inflamed brain cells linked with Alzheimer’s disease may hold the key to potentially preventing the neurological condition, scientists say. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research, presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions 2023 in Boston, tested the vaccine in mice to target cells producing proteins linked to aging in mice ... Read More »
Loneliness or Social Isolation Linked to Serious Health Outcomes
There have been many studies on the associations between social isolation, loneliness, and the risk of dying early, but some results have been controversial or mixed, according to the paper published Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. Those conflicting results could be due to research only focusing on ... Read More »