Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries

Credit: Australian Government, Canberra Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already exists. Nutrient…

‘Dune: Prophecy’s’ Faoileann Cunningham on Sister Jen’s harrowing series journey (exclusive)

Amid the sacred stone walls of the Sisterhood’s fortress-like headquarters on the planet Wallach IX, the acolytes of Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) and Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen (Olivia…

FDA approves Tryngolza as adjunct to diet for familial chylomicronemia syndrome

Tryngolza (olezarsen) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an adjunct to diet to reduce triglycerides in adults with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), which can lead…

Screen time these holidays doesn’t need to be a bad thing

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With five weeks of school summer holidays (that’s around 25 days of weekday activities to organize), being online is a major attraction for most kids and…

EU universal charger rules come into force

Most devices already use these cables, but Apple was more than a little reluctant. EU rules requiring all new smartphones, tablets and cameras to use the same charger came into…

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?

Dec. 28: SpaceX launching 2 rockets today SpaceX is planning two rocket launches in the next 12 hours, one from California and the other from Florida. The first launch is…

We don’t all need regular skin cancer screening—but you can know your risk and check yourself

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australia has one of the highest skin cancer rates globally, with nearly 19,000 Australians diagnosed with invasive melanoma—the most lethal type of skin cancer—each year. While…

From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space.…

Astronomers discover an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy

The morphology and photometric redshift of Zhúlóng. Credit: Xiao et al., 2024. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sets new record for sun proximity

An artist’s concept showing Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/APL Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec.…