Day: August 5, 2025

Dieters in trial lost twice as much weight when avoiding ultra-processed ready meals with as much nutrition People lose more weight if they cook minimally processed food from scratch than if they eat ultra-processed and ready-made foods, according to the first study to establish a clear link between ultra-processed foods...

After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackled A decade after the onset of a sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic considered the largest ever documented in the wild, researchers have identified the microbial culprit responsible: a strain of...

Jaime Slaughter-Acey’s study addresses the high rates of maternal mortality among Black women in the US. Trump’s NIH funding cuts threaten her years-long research Jaime Slaughter-Acey was in a state of shock and anger when she learned that her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study on birth outcomes in Black...

The planet will be shining brightly and visible in even the most light-polluted urban environments August is another bright sky month in the northern hemisphere so we’re having to look for late night and early morning events featuring bright celestial objects. Luckily, Venus has us covered. The planet reaches its...

A pun, a puzzle and a work of art UPDATE: Read the solutions here Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text that can...