Should medical marijuana be less stringently regulated? A drug policy expert explains what’s at stake

Medical marijuana could soon be reclassified into a medical category that includes prescription drugs like Tylenol with codeine, ketamine and anabolic steroids. That’s because in December 2025, President Donald Trump…

Innovations in asthma care can improve the health of Detroiters living with this chronic disease

Researchers and doctors are beginning to modernize asthma treatment using innovative therapies. Asthma is a common, chronic and treatable lung disease that touches nearly every family in America. It affects…

Memory Rewritten: Study Finds No Clear Line Between Episodic and Semantic Retrieval

Summary: A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information. The…

Bronze reliquary cross unearthed in ancient Lystra

A rare bronze reliquary cross has been discovered during excavations of a church complex in the ancient city of Lystra, located in the Meram district of Konya, central Türkiye. Lystra…

Discovery of monumental sacred lake at Karnak

Recent archaeological investigations at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, have revealed a previously unknown sacred lake. The finding was officially announced during a press conference held by a…

All foods can fit in a balanced diet – a dietitian explains how flexibility can be healthier than dieting

Eat this, not that. This one food will cure everything. That food is poison. Cut this food out. Try this diet. Don’t eat at these times. Eat this food and…

Preserved hilltop settlement provides rare insight into Bronze Age life

Archaeologists have uncovered a preserved hilltop settlement following a major excavation at Harden Quarry in the Cheviot Hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border. The excavation unearthed the remains of ancient roundhouse…

Malaria researchers are getting closer to outsmarting the world’s deadliest parasite

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s…

Ancient mega-site cities challenges long-held perceptions of urban origins

An archaeological site in Ukraine is attracting ever-increasing international interest as scientists rethink where the world’s earliest cities might have emerged. New research shows that some of the earliest communities…

Rare wheel cross discovery provides new evidence for early Christianisation

A bronze wheel, dated to the 10th or 11th century AD, has been discovered in the Havelland region of Brandenburg, Germany. According to archaeologists from the Brandenburg State Office for…