Scientists decipher the genetic history of 400 medieval skeletons

Scientists have extracted genetic information from 400 medieval burials that date between the eighth and eighteenth centuries. Their work, which represents a large-scale analysis of DNA from medieval times, has helped clarify how populations in...

Science in Sport [SiS] launches new Energy Oat Bar

Leading performance nutrition brand Science in Sport [SiS] has launched a new Energy Oat Bar, available in two flavours, formulated to provide a source of carbohydrates, protein and fibre to fuel an active lifestyle. Made with natural ingredients...

Scientists and monks perform last rites for a Himalayan glacier

At a little over 5,000 metres above sea level, Buddhist monks, members of Nepal’s Langtang Valley community, and scientists gathered for an unusual ceremony. High in the Himalayas, just north of the capital Kathmandu, science and faith came...

Scientists discover ‘Dragon Prince’, the T-rex’s ancestor

Khankhuuluu forms the ‘missing link’ between the smaller earlier tyrannosaurs and massive apex predators such as the T-rex, scientists say. Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaurs in Mongolia, which they believe is an ancestor of the...

Science is Moving—Clinical Trials Must Catch Up

Key Takeaways Clinical trial processes lag behind scientific and technological advances. While the science and tools exist to run faster, more inclusive, and efficient trials, outdated mindsets, rigid protocols, and operational inertia are holding...

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Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels are inextricably linked, new research suggests. The strength of the geomagnetic field has gone up in lockstep with the percentage of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere over the past 540 million years, a new study...

Scientists Found a Link Between Spirituality and Your Brain—Are You Hardwired to Believe in God?

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is showing that our brains may have specific neural activity associated with belief in...

Scientists find cancer-fighting sugar in sea cucumbers with no blood clotting risk

Sea cucumbers scrub the seafloor. Soon, they might scrub out cancer. A team of researchers from the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, and Georgetown University has discovered a sugar compound in sea cucumbers that can effectively block Sulf-2,...

Scientists Turn Timber Into SuperWood: 50% Stronger Than Steel and 90% More Environmentally Friendly

Wooden boards made of SuperWood. Image credits: InventWood Imagine wood so strong it rivals steel, yet far lighter, renewable, and producing 90 percent less carbon emissions. That’s exactly what SuperWood, developed by InventWood, a startup spun...

Scientists Just Solved a 14,000-Year-Old Puppy Mystery

In 2011 and 2015, two approximately 14,000-year-old pups were pulled from northern Siberia’s permafrost roughly 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the village of Tumat. Within the same layers of icy soil, researchers found woolly mammoth bones with...

Scientists Develop Bio-inspired Medical Adhesive

Every surface in our bodies not covered in skin is lined with a protective layer of mucus — a slimy network of proteins that acts as a physical barrier against bacteria and other infectious agents. In new recently published work, engineers from...

Scientists reach out to nearly 2L farmers through Krishi Sankalp drive in Tripura

Science says these 12 foods fight fatigue — are you eating them?

These Foods Give You Energy and Fight Fatigue adamkaz - Getty Images "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s common to feel drained more easily with age. While exhaustion can stem from a...

Scientists Map Stomach Tumours To Personalize Cancer Treatment

AsianScientist (Jun. 13, 2025) – Gastric cancer is a major global health concern, ranking as the fifth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with close to 770,000 deaths each year. In Singapore alone,...

Scientists call for urgent global action to protect wild seaweed species

The GlobalSeaweed-SUPERSTAR programme will ask, on 13 June, the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice to recognise the importance of seaweed to ocean health and food security and request it be given conservation status similar to coral reefs,...

Quantum science is humanity's next giant leap. Here's what that means for planet Earth

In the same way that "space is big" (as described in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), quantum physics is confounding. Science’s best minds have been puzzling away at it for over a century, pawing at the subject like...

A new issue of the scientific-methodological journal "Issues of Philology" published

A new issue of the scientific-methodological electronic journal "Issues of Philology" of the Dowletmammet Azadi Turkmen National Institute of World Languages has been released in Turkmenistan. The articles presented in the journal are devoted to...

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June 13, 2025 MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. Contact: Emilie Lorditch: 810-844-1460, [email protected]; Bethany Mauger: 765-571-0623, [email protected] Images, video Why this matters:...

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image: Assistant Professor Jennifer Young (right) and PhD student Avery Rui Sun (left), who are from the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, image heart cells (orange) on DECIPHER scaffolds (pink) using a...

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Photos A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of atoms, according to a study from the University of Michigan. The findings come from the first quantum-mechanical...