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Ocean Bacteria Colonize Your Skin After Just 10 Minutes of Swimming

Another reason to shower after taking a dip in the sea.

Health Ed Cara Jun 22

Researchers ‘Lost’ 17,000 Wallets in Hundreds of Cities to See What People Would Actually Return

Plenty of people around the world, it turns out, are willing to return a stranger’s lost wallet—especially if it’s filled with cash, according to a counterintuitive study. The study, published in the journal Science on Thursday, was a meticulous social experiment that took three years and over half a million dollars to complete. A group…

Crime Ed Cara Jun 20

Shampoos, Perfumes, and Other Cosmetics Send Thousands of Kids to the ER Every Year

Nail polish removers and other personal care products are sending a shocking number of young kids in the U.S. to the emergency room, according to a new study out Monday. Nearly 65,000 children under the age of five have been treated for “cosmetic-related injuries” in ERs in the 15 years leading up to 2016, the…

Health Ed Cara Jun 17

Harvard Scientists Make ‘Landmark’ Discovery in Synthesizing Anti-Cancer Molecules Found in Sea Sponges

Harvard and Japanese scientists say they’ve made a “landmark” discovery in cancer drug development. In a new study published Monday, they say they have finally found a way to synthesize in bulk a complex class of promising cancer-fighting molecules derived from sea sponges. Their new strategy has already helped speed up research into these molecules,…

Health Ed Cara Jun 17

Oh No, a Bad Salmonella Has Reached the U.S.

Here’s a little morsel of horror to carry you through the weekend. Scientists at North Carolina State University say they’ve discovered disease-causing Salmonella bacteria in the U.S. that can resist one of the few remaining antibiotics available for certain infections. What’s worse, the mutation responsible for this newfound resistance can easily be passed onto other…

Health Ed Cara Jun 14

Fecal Transplant Patient Killed by Superbug Traced to Donor Stool

An aesthetically unpleasant but genuinely promising medical treatment—a fecal transplant—may come with more serious risks than previously thought. This week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about the treatment, after receiving reports of two people coming down with serious drug-resistant infections following the procedure. One patient ultimately died. Fecal transplants, or fecal microbiota…

Health Ed Cara Jun 14

We’re Only Catching Half of All Ebola Outbreaks, Study Suggests

The past five years have seen a surge in documented cases of the deadly and gruesome viral disease Ebola, thanks to widespread (and ongoing) outbreaks that have ripped through Africa and even made it to other areas of the world. But a new study out Thursday suggests the waves of misery and death we record…

Health Ed Cara Jun 13

Blood Feasts and Roach Vacuums: The Life of an Urban Pest Scientist

Urban pests like bedbugs and roaches have long been the bane of humanity. But scientists are working hard to unravel their secrets.

Health Ed Cara Jun 13

We’re Eating a Whole Lot of Plastic… Uh, Is That Bad?

If you’re the type to get squeamish about the things you accidentally eat, you’re not going to like the new report released by the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) this Tuesday. According to the report, we might be eating a credit card’s worth of microplastic every week, thanks to widespread contamination of…

Health Ed Cara Jun 12

People Inhaled Cannabis to Get High at Funerals 2,500 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests

Humans have been smoking, eating, and wearing cannabis for millennia, and a new study out Wednesday presents some pretty strong evidence of people using it explicitly to get high back during the first century BCE in Central Asia. The paper suggests that the plant could have been cultivated to be more mind-altering and used for…

Health Ed Cara Jun 12

Legal Cannabis May Not Lower Opioid Overdose Deaths After All

A new study seems to deal a serious blow to one of the pro-cannabis movement’s talking points: the idea that the more medical cannabis is legalized, the fewer people will die from opioid overdoses. The findings suggest that there’s no real connection between the rate of opioid overdose deaths and a state’s medical cannabis laws,…

Health Ed Cara Jun 11

How to Quickly Trick Yourself Out of Being a Night Owl

If you envy people who wake up with the Sun, but you can’t seem to get to bed until well after midnight, some new research might help change your habits. An intriguing (but small) study suggests that it’s possible to retrain yourself to go to sleep earlier in just three weeks, without any drugs or…

Health Ed Cara Jun 10

Woman Relieved After Suspected Brain Tumor Turns Out to Be Tapeworm Egg

You wouldn’t expect that finding a tapeworm egg in your brain would be seen as good news, but such was the case for New York resident Rachel Palma this past fall. That’s because the larva found inside was the true cause of Palma’s worsening symptoms of insomnia and hallucinations, rather than a brain tumor that…

Health Ed Cara Jun 7

Scientists Sequenced the Genes of Ancient Plague Bacteria That Spread the ‘First Pandemic’

Scientists have gained some insight into one of the first known calamities to visit mankind: a two century-long pandemic caused by the bacterial disease plague. Studying the remains of plague victims, the researchers say they were able to sequence the genomes of plague strains that devastated the Roman Empire starting in the 6th century. They…

Health Ed Cara Jun 6

The Deep-Sea Dragonfish Has One of the Most Terrifying Smiles on Earth

Scientists have shined a light on one of the creepier denizens of the deep sea, a pitch-black creature that can turn itself into a living lamp called the dragonfish. New research helps explain one of the dragonfish’s more disturbing qualities: its relatively gigantic and translucent teeth. Deep-sea dragonfish, while rarely more than a half-foot long,…

Biology Ed Cara Jun 5

White Meat May Be as Bad as Red Meat for Cholesterol

Switching from red meat to chicken to keep your cholesterol down may not be a great strategy, according to a new study this Tuesday. It found that people’s blood cholesterol levels rose similarly when they ate a diet filled with either red or white meat, compared to a diet without meat. This effect on cholesterol,…

Health Ed Cara Jun 4

Your Caffeine or Nicotine Addiction Could Make Your Hospital Stay a Whole Lot Worse

A coffee or smoking habit can cause a person some serious trouble if they end up in the hospital, preliminary research suggests. Patients in the intensive care unit often suffer withdrawal symptoms from caffeine and nicotine, it found. Worse still, doctors might mistake the cause of those symptoms for something else, leading to unneeded testing…

Health Ed Cara Jun 3

Doctors Had to Put Out a Fire in Patient’s Chest During Open Heart Surgery

An Australian patient’s life-saving surgical procedure went up in flames, and unfortunately we don’t mean that figuratively. Doctors say their attempts to perform emergency heart surgery on the man went slightly awry at one point, when a flash fire sparked in the man’s cracked-open chest cavity. Amazingly, the doctors were able to put out the…

Health Ed Cara Jun 2

Man Suffers 9-Day Erection After Bruising Taint in Moped Accident

A man’s fall from a moped caused him much stranger trouble than anyone could have imagined. According to his doctors, a bruise near his genitals left him with a days-long erection—one that eventually required a trip to the emergency room to treat. Thankfully, doctors were able to resolve his awkward complication, and the patient had…

Health Ed Cara May 31

Bias Against Female Lab Animals Is Messing Up Scientific Research

Gender discrimination in science doesn’t just affect women scientists. It also skews the results of animal research, as a new paper out this week describes. Animals used in experiments are still overwhelmingly male, thanks to outdated stereotypes that hormones like estrogen can distort an experiment’s findings. The argument comes courtesy of Rebecca Shansky, an associate…

Biology Ed Cara May 31

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Ocean Bacteria Colonize Your Skin After Just 10 Minutes of Swimming

Researchers ‘Lost’ 17,000 Wallets in Hundreds of Cities to See What People Would Actually Return

Shampoos, Perfumes, and Other Cosmetics Send Thousands of Kids to the ER Every Year

Harvard Scientists Make ‘Landmark’ Discovery in Synthesizing Anti-Cancer Molecules Found in Sea Sponges

Oh No, a Bad Salmonella Has Reached the U.S.

Fecal Transplant Patient Killed by Superbug Traced to Donor Stool

We’re Only Catching Half of All Ebola Outbreaks, Study Suggests

Blood Feasts and Roach Vacuums: The Life of an Urban Pest Scientist

We’re Eating a Whole Lot of Plastic… Uh, Is That Bad?

People Inhaled Cannabis to Get High at Funerals 2,500 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests

Legal Cannabis May Not Lower Opioid Overdose Deaths After All

How to Quickly Trick Yourself Out of Being a Night Owl

Woman Relieved After Suspected Brain Tumor Turns Out to Be Tapeworm Egg

Scientists Sequenced the Genes of Ancient Plague Bacteria That Spread the ‘First Pandemic’

The Deep-Sea Dragonfish Has One of the Most Terrifying Smiles on Earth

White Meat May Be as Bad as Red Meat for Cholesterol

Your Caffeine or Nicotine Addiction Could Make Your Hospital Stay a Whole Lot Worse

Doctors Had to Put Out a Fire in Patient’s Chest During Open Heart Surgery

Man Suffers 9-Day Erection After Bruising Taint in Moped Accident

Bias Against Female Lab Animals Is Messing Up Scientific Research

Disneyland Makes Up for That Han Solo Situation With a Lovely Leia Look

The Cockroach of Dinosaurs Likely Survived Extinction Because of Its Big Wet Eggs

Why Fans Are Calling ‘Apocalypse Hotel’ the Real Anime of the Year

Spirit Airlines Could Liquidate by the End of the Week Due to Fuel Crisis

After 100 Years, Engineers Finally Discover Why Rubber Is So Tough

Wizards of the Coast Is Getting in on Its Own ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Actual Play

Iceland Just Got its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next

Europe Could Run Out of Jet Fuel in Just 6 Weeks

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 to Remind Everyone How Great Mythos Is

The Next Surface PCs May Not Be the Big Upgrades You Hoped for

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

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Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

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HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

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