Credit: Shutterstock As the weather warms and pollen begins its dance across the sky, some people’s bodies hurl them into a storm of watery eyes, runny noses and sneezing fits. But sometimes the spring and summer months also bring bouts of tiredness. Can people with allergies also blame this on […]
Illustration of mitochondria, specialized structures in cells that turn nutrients into energy (© stock.adobe.com) What makes healthy cells change and become dysfunctional to the point of causing disease? In addition to a disruption in genes that regulate cells, there is another factor in cell misbehavior that involves metabolism, say Yale […]
Processed meats remain a major part of the average American’s diet. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raysonho@ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine) Well, the results are in. After years and years of nutritionists telling Americans to eat fewer processed meats and more fish, Americans are eating (drumroll please) … exactly the same amounts as […]
Lactobacillus bacteria, seen in this colored scanning electron micrograph, are part of the flora of the human gut. Credit: Science Photo Library/Getty Images Plus How does diet affect the thriving communities of microbes living in your digestive tract? It’s personal. New research finds that the types of foods people eat […]
Credit: Shutterstock Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood. And now, researchers have developed a new kind of laser that can find and zap those tumor cells from the outside of the skin. Though it may still be a ways away from becoming a commercial […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nitrate pollution of U.S. drinking water may cause up to 12,594 cases of cancer a year, according to a new peer-reviewed study by the Environmental Working Group. For the groundbreaking study, published today in the journal Environmental Research, EWG scientists estimated the number of cancer cases in […]
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Credit: Sergeev Kirill/Shutterstock In the new HBO miniseries “Chernobyl,” Russian scientists uncover the reason for an explosion in Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which spewed radioactive material across northern Europe. That reactor, a design called the RBMK-1000, was discovered to be fundamentally […]
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A fungus – genetically enhanced to produce spider toxin – can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a study suggests. Trials, which took place in Burkina Faso, showed mosquito populations collapsed by 99% within 45 days. The researchers say their aim is not […]
Credit: ACS When you get a drink of water from your fridge or sink, do you think about where that water came from? It has traveled through pipes from a water treatment plant where it underwent chemical processes to make it safe to drink. Chlorine is added to the water […]
Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world’s rivers exceed ‘safe’ levels. Credit: University of York Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world’s rivers exceed ‘safe’ levels by up to 300 times, the first ever global study has discovered. Researchers looked for 14 commonly used antibiotics in […]