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·November 25, 2025·8 min read

Young Adults With Obesity Show Early Signs of Brain Stress

New research shows that young adults with obesity already display biological patterns associated with liver stress, chronic inflammation, and early neural injury—changes typically seen in older adults with cognitive impairment. Participants with obesity also had unusually low blood choline levels, a nutrient critical for liver function, inflammation control, and long-term brain health.

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·August 13, 2025·7 min read

Fossils Show Early Humans and New Australopithecus Lived Together

An international team of researchers working at Ledi-Geraru in Ethiopia has uncovered fossils indicating that early Homo and a newly identified Australopithecus species coexisted between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The discovery includes 13 Australopithecus teeth, distinct from the famous Australopithecus afarensis (“Lucy”), and confirms there is no evidence of Lucy’s kind after 2.95 million years ago.

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·December 20, 2024·8 min read

Chronic Gut Virus May Play a Role in Alzheimer’s Development

Researchers have linked chronic intestinal infections caused by cytomegalovirus (HCMV) to a unique subtype of Alzheimer’s disease. The virus may travel from the gut to the brain via the vagus nerve, altering immune responses and contributing to hallmark Alzheimer’s changes like amyloid plaques and tau tangles. While HCMV infection is common and typically harmless, this study found that it may cause chronic brain inflammation in certain individuals.

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·December 5, 2024·5 min read

Ancient Friendship: Humans and Dogs Bonded 12,000 Years Ago

Humans and canines in the Americas formed close relationships 12,000 years ago, earlier than previously thought. Archaeological findings in Alaska, including a 12,000-year-old canine tibia and an 8,100-year-old jawbone, indicate these animals relied on humans for food, such as salmon, rather than hunting independently.

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·December 4, 2024·9 min read

Herbicide Exposure Linked to Long-Term Brain Inflammation, Alzheimer’s

New research reveals that glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, can cause lasting brain inflammation and accelerate Alzheimer’s-like pathology in mice. Even short-term exposure resulted in persistent inflammatory markers and neurological damage, including anxiety-like behaviors and premature death. The study found that glyphosate’s metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid, accumulates in brain tissue, raising concerns about its long-term safety for humans.

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·November 9, 2024·6 min read

Why Human Culture Never Stops Evolving

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its "open-endedness." Unlike animal cultures that reach limits in evolution, human culture continuously expands, adapting without bounds.

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·January 17, 2023·9 min read

The Effects of Dietary Choline Deficiency on Neurologic and System-Wide Health

Study reveals how dietary choline deficiency adversely affects the body and how it could be a missing piece of the puzzle when it comes to Alzheimer's disease.

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·July 23, 2022·6 min read

Scientists Find Molecular Clues Behind Acute and Chronic Phases of Traumatic Brain Injury

Researchers identified a unique biomarker associated with only the chronic or acute stage of traumatic brain injury.

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·May 11, 2022·7 min read

Designer Neurons Offer New Hope for Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers have designed a new method of converting non-neural cells into functioning neurons that are able to form synapses, dispense dopamine, and restore the function of neurons undermined by Parkinson's associated destruction of dopaminergic cells.

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·February 7, 2022·8 min read

Survivors of Weather-Related Disasters May Have Accelerated Aging

Study demonstrates the effects natural disasters may have on molecularly accelerated aging on the immune systems of monkeys.

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·September 28, 2021·8 min read

Children Do Not Understand Concept of Others Having False Beliefs Until Age 6 or 7

Young children do not understand true or false belief, instead, they rely on perceptual access reasoning. The findings upend the longstanding belief that theory of mind is acquired by age four.