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2+ week, 5+ day ago (931+ words) Peptides Are All the Rage, Promising Miracle Cures and Makeovers Delivered by Injection. How Did We Get Here? Experts say the peptide craze is part of a broader phenomenon, as patients look beyond the regulated health system to address problems…...
Could Artificial Intelligence Help With Early Diagnosis of Schizophrenia?
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (639+ words) Innovation | September 11, 2026 9:31 a.m. The tool may pick up subtle differences in the speech of people with the mental health condition better than human psychiatrists Astrid Landon, Knowable Magazine “We have the tools to do that with the kind of precision that…...
Stealing Candy From Children, Splash-Proof Urinals and Buried Panties, Oh My! Here Are the Winners of the 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (739+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent You’re probably familiar with the Nobel Prizes, some of the most prestigious awards. While the world eagerly awaits who will earn those prizes this year, some researchers are currently celebrating the winners of playful—yet still…...
The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1612+ words) Kristen A. Schmitt | Freelance writer Research shows that more than 31 million Americans—or nearly one in ten people—experience a tick bite every year. While some tick bites can be harmless, these parasitic arachnids that feed on both animals and people…...
The World's First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (579+ words) Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent For decades, scientists have tried to build a device even more precise than an atomic clock, which keeps time using electrons, the negatively charged particles that whiz around in an atom. Now, two independent teams of…...
Nearly All Plants Depend on Tiny Underground Fungi. The Microbes' Vast Global Networks Were Just Mapped for the First Time
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (329+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Around 500 million years ago, plants started transitioning from water to land. These early terrestrial greens had no roots, however, so they partnered with tiny fungi called mycorrhizae to suck up nutrients and water from the dirt....
Astronomers Discovered a 'Cosmic Fossil' in the Making—the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy Seen Yet—by Peering Back to the Edge of Time
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (363+ words) Eli Stark-Elster | AAAS Mass Media Fellow For the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the primordial universe was draped in clouds of hydrogen and helium. Heavier elements—like carbon and oxygen, which form some of life’s basic…...
Scientists Say They've Discovered 'Little Lab Zombies'—Seemingly Immortal Tissue Taken From Sea Cucumbers
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (554+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Scientists have stumbled upon what they’ve dubbed real-life “zombies.” These seemingly immortal things—amputated tissue from the sea cucumber species Psolus fabricii—appear to exist in a gray zone of life. The discovery, described in a…...
Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (457+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Humpback whales sometimes hang out with their mouths wide open for no apparent reason. To figure out why they engage in the energetically costly behavior, researchers turned to an unusual source for…...
How a Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Could Reset the Immune Systems of Patients With Autoimmune Diseases
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (678+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine At 49, Jan Janisch-Hanzlik’s multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to…...