Why Both Stimulating And Blocking GLP-1R Helps People Lose Weight
Understanding which brain circuits respond to weight loss medications and how they behave could lead to better weight loss with fewer side effects.
AI Has A Cerebellum Now
We're bombarded with information at all times, so much that if we had to try and process it all times, we'd be paralyzed. Our cerebellum does information damage control by filtering out what changes. Evolution made it possible for us to conserve energy while still processing anomalies quickly.
Lady 56: A Swedish Grave Reveals A Famed Spanish Pilgrimage
If you see multiple graves in medieval graves, it is reasonable to assume children and adults were related, but a new study finds that was not the case.
Parkinson's Disease Shows Men And Women Are Scientifically Different
More men than women develop Parkinson’s disease and new work presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies says that it is do to sex differences in how brain cells change. Parkinson’s disease affects about 9 million people and becomes increasingly prevalent with age.
Mice Given Supplement Before Surgery Experience Greater Liver Regeneration
Hepatectomy is surgery in which part of the liver is removed, generally to treat liver cancer or harvest a portion of the liver for a transplant.
You Laugh Like An Ape
All living great apes laugh, and of course humans do as well.
Hapalochlaena: How To Survive This Golf Ball Sized Venom Vector
Not many humans have died from the venom of the species of blue-ringed octopuses in the genus Hapalochlaena despite them living in tide pools from Japan to Australia, but all of the deaths had to be memorable. Because Hapalochlaena venom only paralyzes voluntary muscles.
Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory Has 60% Fewer Insects
In the last 50 years, Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory has seen a decline of insects by over 60 percent and it took a U.S. university to sound the alarm. The impact, the authors of a new paper believe, is smaller birds and less breeding success.
52246 Donaldjohanson: The Wobbling Peanut In Space
Scientists studying the inner main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, believed to be a member of the Erigone asteroid family, have found that its rotation wobbles.
How Barbarians Remade The Roman Empire From The Inside
One enduring myth about the collapse of the Roman Empire was that barbarians - Pagans from the north and Muslims from the south - caused it. The real cause was weather. Some 1600 years ago climate shifts made life much harder to sustain and the Roman Empire became unable to feed itself.
Mesothelioma Cases In Women Increase 50 Years After Asbestos Bans
Mesothelioma should be a disease of the past. Lawyers have made fortunes targeting asbestos, a flame protector used in buildings across the country. Despite its prevalence, mesothelioma remained a rare cancer.
People With Severe Obesity Less Likely To Get Surgery
A new analysis highlights a concerned trend among those with extreme obesity; though obesity is currently the third greatest lifestyle killer, behind only cigarettes and alcohol, the analysis of 11.6 million surgical cases from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) between 2005 and 2022 found that people with the highest levels of obesity are undergoing fewer surgical procedures overall.
Lack Of Sex Held Us Back Forever
If you've ever tried to use a dating app, you may think asexual reproduction would be better than seeing someone 15 years older than their photo arrive at the restaurant but from an evolutionary perspective, it wasn't quite a dead end, but it was a slow crawl.
