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Treating High Blood Pressure Reduces Dementia Risk

Lowering blood pressure through medication can reduce someone's risk of developi...

Quantum Computer Makes Random-Number Breakthrough

Quantinuum’s 56-bit trapped-ion computer has succeeded in demonstrating randomne...

Why GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Are Hard to Make into Pills

Some experts say oral versions of popular weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy could...

Keeping Kids Interested in Science Is a Matter of Language

As children get older, their understanding of science and being a scientist chan...

Measles, Whooping Cough, the Laschamp Event and a Colos...

This week’s news roundup covers measles and whooping cough cases, evidence of a ...

How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High

Most people know weed gets you high—but do you know how THC actually does it?

Lifesaving Alzheimer’s Research Delayed by Trump Fundin...

The Trump administration is freezing, delaying and revoking funding for dementia...

Researchers Discover New Color That’s Impossible to See...

Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but yo...

Trump Tariffs Hit Oil Companies despite Administration‘...

Liberty Energy, founded by Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, reports falling pr...

Trump Administration's Science Cuts Come for NSF Funding

The National Science Foundation, which funds key science and engineering researc...

Microplastics Make It into Your Food through Plant Leaves

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously over...

What Causes Severe Morning Sickness, and What Treatment...

Scientists discovered two genes involved in hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition ...

NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. T...

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly read...

What Are ORCs? Astronomers Still Don’t Know

ORCs—odd radio circles—are one of the weirdest recent discoveries in the heavens...

Scientific American Editor Gary Stix Talks about His 35...

Hear takeaways from 35 years at Scientific American from Gary Stix, our recently...

What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Foun...

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have...

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