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…

NASA SLS rocket booster spews fire photo of the day for July 10, 2025

Northrop Grumman and NASA conducted a dramatic static-fire test of a booster for an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket last week. According to NASA, the five-segment booster rocket fired for…

Muscle weakness in cancer survivors may be caused by treatable weakness in blood vessels – new research

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues…

AI in health care could save lives and money − but change won’t happen overnight

Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together…

Quantum objects’ dual nature mapped with new formula for ‘wave-ness’ and ‘particle-ness’