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World First Transplant: Man Regains Viable Sperm From His Childhood Testicle Tissue
NEWS | 09 May 2026
That means their ejaculate lacks any viable sperm. In a new case study, provided ahead of peer review, the team explains how they treated a male patient with no viable sperm by re-transplanting a sample of his own childhood testicular tissue into his adult testicle. However, it was found that he had no viable sperm in his remaining testicle. He requested transplantation, using the testicular tissue he had elected to freeze in childhood. Only the parts of the testicle that contain the transplanted grafts hold viable sperm, and these are not connected to the patient's sperm duct.

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Scientists Engineer Blood Clots That Stop Severe Bleeding in Seconds
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Blood clots are the body's built-in way of staunching blood loss. "Natural blood clots can be slow to form and mechanically fragile, which limits their ability to stop severe bleeding and can compromise healing," says mechanical engineer Jianyu Li from McGill University in Canada. They're tougher and more substantial, but make up just a small fraction (less than a single percent) of natural blood clots. You might be more familiar with the dangerous type of blood clots, which form inside blood vessels and can block blood flow in the lungs or to the brain. "Engineered blood clots have strong potential for broad clinical use and could improve outcomes across many medical situations," says Li.

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A NASA Study About Houseplants Has Been Widely Misread, Scientist Says
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Most studies showing that houseplants remove pollutants share a fundamental design feature: small, sealed chambers with artificially high concentrations of pollutants introduced as a single high dose. This is how quickly outdoor air naturally replaces indoor air through gaps, walls, and ventilation systems. So the scientifically defensible answer is: houseplants can remove some pollutants, but they are not an effective standalone air-cleaning solution for homes. It means their results were often overextended into everyday settings where the physics of indoor air are very different. But they should not be presented as a practical solution to serious indoor air problems.

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Coffee May Protect Against Aging, And Caffeine Isn't The Main Reason
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Accordingly, it has been observed that coffee drinkers live longer and exhibit lower incidences of chronic and age-related disorders, including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and dementia. In this recent study, the researchers exposed various cell types to coffee and to individual coffee compounds. These cell types included a human cancer cell line, as well as macrophages (white blood cells) derived from the house mouse (Mus musculus). Some coffee compounds also appeared to inhibit an inflammatory response modulated by the white blood cells. Surprisingly, even though caffeine often gets top billing, it does not appear to be the primary ingredient responsible for coffee's observed health effects via this particular pathway.

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One Type of Fat May Accelerate Brain Aging, But Scientists Say There's a Fix
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Faster brain aging typically means a faster decline in mental performance, and a higher risk of brain diseases. Crucially, this new research shows that brain aging can be indirectly influenced by visceral fat in particular. The researchers also found that more visceral fat was linked to a faster expansion of brain ventricles, a marker of brain aging. While the study doesn't prove that reducing visceral fat can slow brain aging, it makes a strong case. Given everything we already know about brain aging and visceral fat, however, it's another reason to think about eating well and staying active.

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SPONSORED | 09 May 2026
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Sir David Attenborough Is 100, And The World Is Celebrating a Living Legend
NEWS | 09 May 2026
His career in nature documentaries began to bud almost immediately, with his Zoo Quest series beginning in 1954. In other nature documentaries, wildlife can often seem secondary, as props for the presenter. frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen>Over his long career, Attenborough has become an icon. As he has said:it seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth livingHear, hear.

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Is The Brain Born 'Blank' or 'Full'? New Study Reveals a Surprise
NEWS | 09 May 2026
A strange mouse study suggests that the brain isn't a 'blank slate' at birth, waiting for memories to be written onto it. Neuroscientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) examined mouse brains from birth to adulthood, focusing on the complexity of a key memory circuit in the hippocampus. This region of the brain is involved in spatial memory and in consolidating short-term memories into long-term ones. The team found that in the youngest mouse brains, this network of CA3 pyramidal neurons was very dense, with seemingly random connections. In a blank slate scenario, however, distant neurons would first have to find each other before they could communicate.

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Sir David Attenborough Is 100 Years Old Today! This Could Be The Secret of His Longevity.
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Sir David Attenborough is 100 years old today – a birthday fewer than 0.03 percent of people alive today have celebrated. The beloved English broadcaster and natural historian has attributed his long and healthy life to one key factor: Sheer darn luck. Just last year, on his 99th birthday, Attenborough released a new documentary. In the UK and the US, the rate of centenarians like Attenborough has nearly doubled in the past twenty years. While there is no single formula for a rich and healthy life, Attenborough's time on this planet is a lesson in more ways than one.

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A Sleep Disorder Affecting Nearly 1 Billion People Is Still Overlooked
NEWS | 09 May 2026
One particularly problematic sleep disorder is sleep apnea, and it is not rare. The most common type of sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea, is characterized by repeated blockage of breathing during sleep, often resulting in sleepiness during the day, headaches or snoring – or a combination of these – and in the long term, increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. Sleep apnea is not just about sleepSleep apnea is more than a sleep disorder. Women with sleep apnea often experience headaches, insomnia and depression – symptoms that common screening tools for sleep apnea do not mention. Sleep studies can now be conducted at home to diagnose sleep apnea.

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The '100-Day Cough' Often Missed in Adults Is Highly Contagious
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways. For many adults, whooping cough is unpleasant but manageable. Delayed diagnosis can be a problem because early whooping cough overlaps with many other respiratory infections, including respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, flu, and COVID. frameborder="0″ allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen">Although early symptoms can look similar, there are clues that may help distinguish whooping cough from other infections. Once the cough develops, whooping cough is often worse at night and can be severe enough to cause vomiting.

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Is AI Conscious? One Famous Scientist Says It Could Be
NEWS | 09 May 2026
In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. Why do we see AI chatbots as more than what they truly are, and how do we stop? Most experts deny that AI chatbots are conscious or can have experiences. (Caleb Martin/Unsplash)A mistaken belief in AI consciousness is a dangerous thing. Until such changes happen, it's important that as many people as possible understand the predictive processes on which AI chatbots are built.

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Study of a Million Blood Cells Helps Explain Why Women Face More Autoimmune Disease
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Autoimmune diseases, where the body's own immune system mistakenly goes on the attack, are much more common in women – and a new study analyzing more than 1.25 million blood cells goes a long way to explaining why. "Our findings show that the immune system needs to be studied with sex in mind," says computational biologist Seyhan Yazar, from the Garvan Institute. These are immune cells that circulate in the blood, including different types of white blood cells. "On the other hand, male immune cells are less primed for inflammation, making men generally more susceptible to infections and non-reproductive cancers." "Treatments need to be tailored not just to the disease, but to how a patient's immune system operates at a baseline genetic level."

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Scientists Have Created The First Ever 'Smell Map', And It's Stunning
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Now, scientists have brought us closer to understanding this mysterious sense by creating a detailed map that shows the arrangement of the thousands of different types of smell receptors embedded in the noses of mice. "Our results bring order to a system that was previously thought to lack order, which changes conceptually how we think this works," Datta says. Previously, scientists had trouble detecting the receptors, and they assumed their arrangement must be random: any olfactory sensory neuron could express any one of the 1,100 possible olfactory receptors. By using drugs to adjust the levels of retinoic acid in the mice, the team was able to shift the gradient of smell receptors in the nose. Knowing how smell actually works could also one day help us understand how to restore it in people who have lost this world-enriching sense.

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Some Signs of Depression May Show Up in Blood, Study Finds
NEWS | 09 May 2026
Depression is thought to affect nearly 6 percent of adults, but diagnosing it can be tricky: Symptoms vary, and assessment still depends heavily on self-reported experience. The research team, from institutions across the US, analyzed blood samples from 261 women with HIV and 179 without the virus. When blood biomarkers were compared to depression symptoms, there was one statistically significant association: between the biological aging of immune cells called monocytes and non-somatic (non-physical) symptoms of depression, such as feeling hopeless or disengaged from previously enjoyable activities. While this stops short of being a ready-to-go blood test for depression, considering several symptoms weren't linked to biological aging, it suggests that such a test might one day be possible. We also know that left untreated and unmanaged, depression can often lead to other health issues and premature death.