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New James Webb Space Telescope photo showcases single star in key mission milestone

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A new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope during its alignment process shows galaxies and stars in the background. (Image credit: NASA/STScI) The next great observatory is sharpening its vision and well on the way to cracking mysteries of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope launched in December, arrived at its station … Read more

Blood Tests Show a ‘Nordic Diet’ Improves Key Health Markers – Even Without Weight Loss

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A new study adds support to the idea that eating better foods is beneficial even without obtaining weight loss – with the Nordic diet reducing blood sugar and cholesterol even when no weight was lost.   “It’s surprising because most people believe that positive effects on blood sugar and cholesterol are solely due to weight loss,” … Read more

CRISPR’s Nobel Prize winners defeated in key patent claim for genome editor | Science

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Patent rulings and scientific honors don’t always mesh, as the team that won the Nobel Prize for creating the genome editor CRISPR learned yesterday. After a 7-year patent battle, a U.S. court rejected its intellectual property claim to a key use of CRISPR, potentially costing it many millions in licensing fees. According to a ruling … Read more

The Key Actions From The UN’s Major New Climate Report

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Rising global temperatures bring dire threats, such as floods, heat-related injuries, water scarcity, and hunger, making up to 3.6 billion people – nearly half of the world’s population – highly vulnerable to climate change.   That’s according to a major report, released Monday, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a UN body that … Read more

Fat Cells in Our Skin Could Be Key to Fighting Acne, Scientists Discover

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The cells in our skin that fabricate fatty acids could play an unappreciated role in acne breakouts. Recent experiments on human acne and mouse skin have found pimples and lesions are closely regulated by fat-producing fibroblasts.   Fibroblasts are the most common type of connective tissue cell we have in our bodies; they produce and … Read more

A Key Detail in Your Retina Could Indicate How Healthy Your Brain Is

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Alzheimer’s is an insidious brain disease marked by a slow mental decline that can develop unnoticed for decades before symptoms arise, but hidden signs of the condition might exist much sooner.   New research suggests that the thinning of a person’s retina – the light-sensitive tissue that lines the back of the eye – in … Read more

Interoception: This ‘sixth sense’ could be key to better mental health

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How our brains interpret signals from within the body has a surprisingly big influence on the mind, an insight that is leading to new ways to tackle conditions like depression, anxiety and eating disorders Health 2 February 2022 By Caroline Williams Brett Ryder LYING in the dark, my senses are straining for inputs and finding … Read more

Archaeologists Find Traces of Sacred Groves Tended by The Ancient Maya

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For the ancient Maya people who lived across central America for thousands of years, the cacao plant that chocolate comes from was considered to be a gift from the gods – so much so that beans from these trees were used as a unit of currency.   Now, researchers have been able to identify new … Read more

We Have a ‘Sixth Sense’ That Is Key to Our Wellbeing, But Only if We Listen to It

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Most people are familiar with the five senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste), but not everyone knows that we have an additional sense called interoception. This is the sense of our body’s internal state. It helps us feel and interpret internal signals that regulate vital functions in our body, like hunger, thirst, body temperature, … Read more