A new blood-based discovery regarding the reason why humans start getting frailer after the age of 70 is now opening doors to new therapies meant to combat aging. Those will be targeting diseases and the decline associated with old age. The researchers who made the discovery are from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, and according to their findings, the blood undergoes a drastic change during older age, directly increasing the...

You may think you’re imagining things, but you’re really not — your allergies are getting worse and there’s a scientific explanation for it. A 2021 study found that pollen season has increased by an average of 28 days. Compared to 1990, pollen season now starts off 20 days earlier and lasts about eight days longer. The “best” part? Grasses, plants, and trees now spew around 21% more pollen in the...

What happens when a medical molecular biologist who is also a musician puts both his passions into action? Music with a touch of science in it, of course! Mark Temple from the Western Sydney University in Australia has long been researching new cancer treatments. His latest find is turning molecules into music to find favorable chemical sequences for his research. From Science to Sound Temple’s goal is to extract DNA...

After announcing the finding of the most distant single star and the most distant galaxy ever observed, astronomers have now detected another record-breaking space phenomenon they call a megamaser. This is a powerful radio-wave space laser, and the one that was recently detected is 5 billion light-years away and at least 1,000 times brighter than the Sun. The Space Megamaser Was Detected By the MeerKAT Radio Telescope Astronomers at the...

Next to the breathtakingly beautiful Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, there is a notorious African baobab tree that has been there for centuries. A team of researchers recently made an expedition to the ancient tree in hopes of studying its growth, age, and architecture. Studying Zimbabwe’s Precious Big Tree Adrian Patrut and his team are passionate about studying ancient trees. It was only a matter of time for them to reach...

In the untouched depths of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, researchers have been conducting studies on local bird populations. They were measuring the birds to create a baseline of the rainforest’s rich diversity to see how the habitat disruption from road construction and logging affects the rainforest’s wildlife. What they found out is that the birds are shrinking. Amazonian Birds Are Shrinking In Science Advances on November 12, researchers have reported...