Spotting Silent Scars: A New Way to Detect Childhood Abuse

Summary: Childhood maltreatment leaves profound and often unseen scars, affecting mental health, physical well-being, and social development long into adulthood. Traditional assessments are invasive and often miss the full scope…

Carved human face found in Polish lake

Archaeologists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) have made the remarkable discovery of a carved wooden beam in the waters of Lake Lednica, located between Poznań and Gniezno in west-central…

Latest Grok chatbot turns to Musk for some answers

Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, already faced renewed scrutiny this week after responses that praised Adolf Hitler. The latest version of xAI’s generative artificial intelligence…

Hepatitis C treatment is not reaching some at-risk populations

A study led by Megan Curtis, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU Medicine (right), and Caroline Cary, a third-year medical student, showed that recently…

CTE and normal aging are difficult to distinguish, new study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In recent years, some scientists and advocates have warned that playing contact sports like football and hockey may increase the risk of brain diseases like Alzheimer’s…

Early-onset neonatal sepsis linked to childhood epilepsy

Early-onset neonatal sepsis and meningitis are associated with an increased risk for childhood epilepsy, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Network Open. Mads Andersen, M.D., from…

Some warning alerts can lead to more hazardous driving

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In recent years, every new car driver has been getting used to bells and beeps. As automakers try to make cars safer, they’ve introduced increasingly sophisticated…

Elon Musk’s X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud

An “X” sign rests atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Noah Berger, File French prosecutors have launched…

Scientific paper details what’s known about the third-ever interstellar object

The discovery images of 31/ATLAS. Credit: ATLAS Chile When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system,…

New method replaces nickel and cobalt in battery for cleaner, cheaper lithium-ion batteries

The necessity of annealing and Li-reinsertion after washing of NM-LMTO in decoupling the crystallinity and the particle size. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60946-4 From lab to industry The research…