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A meta-analysis of 45 studies links short bursts of fine particulate air pollution, and months of elevated nitrogen dioxide, with higher odds of death by suicide, adding pollution to the shrinking list of modifiable risk factors researchers can act on.
College students who prepare and drink from a jug of mixed liquor, sold online as a party staple, log alcohol totals far beyond an ordinary night out, and most say the risks will not stop them.
A trial adding the drug lumateperone to a faltering antidepressant improved patients’ sexual function, but most of that improvement traced back to eased depression symptoms rather than any direct effect on desire, arousal or orgasm.
Asked without answer choices, a third of U.S. adults cannot name the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the 2026 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds. Only freedom of speech is named by more than half. Knowledge of constitutional structure runs stronger than knowledge of rights.
U.S. singles have grown far more willing to date across religious, social and financial divides, new survey data show, but political party has hardened into one of the few traits many still refuse to overlook.
Nine nearby Seyfert galaxies show a repeating pattern: star forming rings, black hole radiation cones, and shock heated gas positioned at right angles between them, hinting an active black hole might help build stars as well as stop them.
Transplanting a small number of aging cells into young mice can trigger frailty and, in one study, memory loss, a new review argues, while some people born with unusually high mutation rates age completely normally.
Blood pressure, not brain scans, best predicted which patients cleared a key Alzheimer’s biomarker fastest after starting lecanemab, a Korea University study of 153 patients found, months before cognitive scores showed any difference.
Three chasing satellites outperformed a much larger fleet once researchers taught them to predict where an evasive satellite would move next, cutting the numbers needed for a reliable capture in simulation.
Bacteria scooped from an ordinary compost heap outperformed relatives collected from a Kenyan landfill, a tropical zoo, and insect guts at breaking down two of the hardest plastics to recycle.
Thirteen attempted out-of-body sessions in Brazil produced no correspondence between what volunteers described and a hidden target, but two of them accurately described researchers working behind a closed, unseen door.
A Chalmers and Tianjin physics team compressed years of incremental quantum-state tuning into one carefully calculated pulse, speeding up a key bottleneck in fault-tolerant quantum computing roughly 1,000 times over, at least in simulation.