Gratitude is arguably as quintessential to Thanksgiving as turkey, cranberry sauce and the kumbaya story of Pilgrims and Native Americans coming together. The word “thanks” is, after all, right there in the holiday’s name. Yet if the idea of counting your blessings or writing a heartfelt letter to a loved one fills you with dread,…
November 24, 2025 2 min read GLP-1 Pill Fails to Slow Alzheimer’s Progression in Clinical Trial Top-line results from two large clinical trials by Novo Nordisk, the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, found oral semaglutide failed to slow down Alzheimer’s progression By Lauren J. Young edited by Claire Cameron Brain CT scans of Alzheimer’s disease….
November 24, 2025 2 min read China to Launch Rescue Shenzhou-22 Spacecraft for Stranded Astronauts The Shenzhou-22 spacecraft is set to launch November 25 By Humberto Basilio edited by Claire Cameron Shenzhou-20 crew member Chen Zhongrui (center) is carried by the team after arriving at the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia,…
November 24, 2025 3 min read Is This Our First AI Thanksgiving? As AI slips into kitchens, conversations and memories, Thanksgiving has become a test of how much we’re willing to outsource By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Clara Moskowitz Tom, the turkey in Google’s new commercial, is a plush—the kind of stuffed animal you…
Credit: Kirsty Pargeter/Alamy Jelly belly. Thunder thighs. Muffin top. When it comes to our wobbly bits, we aren’t short of derogatory terminology. Many societies tend to view fat as an inert padding that keeps us warm at best, if not a simple nuisance to be rid of. But it is time to reshape that thinking….
November 25, 2025 2 min read Scientists Identify Five Distinct Eras of Human Brain Development Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new study By Claire Cameron edited by Clara Moskowitz A representative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tractography image of the first…
Mysterious radiation from the outer part of the Milky Way could be a sign of dark matter Triff/Shutterstock An unexplained glow that appears to emanate throughout the Milky Way’s outer regions could be our first hint of what dark matter is made of, but astronomers say it is too early to know for sure. Dark…
November 25, 2025 2 min read U.S. Launches Apollo-Style Mission to Harness AI and Big Data for Scientific Discovery A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intelligence with large federal datasets By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Claire Cameron On Monday President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at…
It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder, then releases a flowery scent near its antennae. Next comes a sugary reward, which makes the hoverfly extend its proboscis – a long, tube-like mouthpart…
Small, icy moons might be boiling under their surface. Many moons in the outer solar system are thought to harbor subsurface oceans beneath their icy crusts. New computer simulations, reported November 24 in Nature Astronomy, suggest that changes in the thickness of these icy shells can cause water in the underlying oceans to boil at…
