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What Is Berberine and How Does It Work? Health

What Is Berberine and How Does It Work?

Berberine is an ancient plant compound that went viral as 'nature's Ozempic,' but the science tells a more nuanced story. Here's what it is, how it wo...

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What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine Science

What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine

Chirality—the mirror-image 'handedness' of molecules—is one of chemistry's most consequential properties. It explains a 1960s drug disaster, drives mo...

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How Severe COVID and Flu Infections Raise Lung Cancer Risk Health

How Severe COVID and Flu Infections Raise Lung Cancer Risk

New research published in Cell reveals that severe respiratory viral infections reprogram immune cells in the lungs, creating a long-lasting pro-tumor...

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Oval Orbit Reveals Exotic Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger Science

Oval Orbit Reveals Exotic Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that a neutron star and a black hole spiraled into each other on an elliptical — not circular — orbit, o...

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Blood Protein Shapes Reveal Alzheimer's Years Early Health

Blood Protein Shapes Reveal Alzheimer's Years Early

A landmark study published in Nature Aging has identified structural changes in three blood proteins that can detect Alzheimer's disease years before...

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How Brain Energy Failure Triggers Depression Health

How Brain Energy Failure Triggers Depression

Scientists are finding that depression may begin not as a chemical imbalance but as an energy crisis inside brain cells — where mitochondria, the cell...

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How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Works and Who It Helps Health

How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Works and Who It Helps

The vagus nerve is the body's longest cranial nerve, linking the brain to nearly every major organ. Vagus nerve stimulation—once a fringe idea—is now...

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How the Gut-Brain Axis Works and Why It Affects Memory Science

How the Gut-Brain Axis Works and Why It Affects Memory

Your gut and brain are in constant two-way communication through the vagus nerve, immune signals, and neurotransmitters — and emerging research shows...

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What Is a Magnetar? The Universe's Most Magnetic Star Science

What Is a Magnetar? The Universe's Most Magnetic Star

Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with magnetic fields a trillion times stronger than Earth's — capable of releasing more energy in a fraction...

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Mirror Amino Acid Targets Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells Science

Mirror Amino Acid Targets Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells

Scientists have discovered that D-cysteine, a mirror-image form of the amino acid cysteine, can dramatically slow tumor growth while leaving healthy c...

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Sleep Apnea Pill Cuts Breathing Pauses by 47 Percent Health

Sleep Apnea Pill Cuts Breathing Pauses by 47 Percent

A European Phase 2 trial published in The Lancet found that sulthiame, a drug originally used to treat childhood epilepsy, reduced breathing interrupt...

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What Is Acromegaly and Why It's Hard to Diagnose Health

What Is Acromegaly and Why It's Hard to Diagnose

Acromegaly is a rare hormonal disorder caused by excess growth hormone in adults. It progresses slowly over years, often going undiagnosed for half a...

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