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Giant Study Reveals The Secret to Heart Health, And It's Not Low-Carb or Low-Fat
NEWS | 05 March 2026
The key to heart health isn't cutting down on pasta or potatoes, new evidence suggests; it's not even a low-fat diet. A study that tracked nearly 200,000 men and women in the US for around 30 years has now found that some low-fat and low-carb diets are better for heart health than others. "These results suggest that healthy low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets may share common biological pathways that improve cardiovascular health," explains Wu. "Focusing on overall diet quality may offer flexibility for individuals to choose eating patterns that align with their preferences while still supporting heart health." "The findings show that what matters most for heart health is the quality of the foods people eat.

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Fully Functional Hair Follicles Have Been Grown in The Lab For The First Time
NEWS | 05 March 2026
For the first time, scientists have created functional hair follicles in the lab that naturally cycle through periods of growth. However, the discovery does support new approaches to restore follicle growth where hair is no longer being produced naturally. In particular, it defines a core, three-cell 'recipe' that's required to produce a completely functional hair follicle in the lab. In recent years, scientists have continued to get closer to growing hair follicles outside of the human body and have them function like the real thing. "This work defines a foundational cellular configuration for functional hair follicle regeneration," says Yoshio Shimo, the CEO of OrganTech, who wasn't directly involved in the study.

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Extreme Microbes Can Survive The Journey Between Planets, Experiments Show
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Not only can they survive the extreme high pressure from a direct impact, but they can survive the journey between planets, despite that journey's many hazards. "Impacts generate very high stresses for short times, resulting in extreme pressures and high rates of loading. In laboratory experiments, the researchers subjected D. radiodurans to extreme pressures for short times, mimicking an impact. As the pressure increases, D. radiodurans exhibited indicators of increased biological stress, as determined by the transcriptional analysis of impacted samples." D. radiodurans ability to survive extreme pressures means there's a pathway where they could survive an inadvertent trip from Earth to Mars, or elsewhere, on one of our rovers or landers.

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We Finally Know What Tore a 500-Km 'Grand Canyon' Into The Atlantic Seafloor
NEWS | 05 March 2026
The King's Trough complex, about 1,000 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) off the coast of Portugal, is known as the 'Grand Canyon of the Atlantic' because of its vast size, and a new study details the monumental forces that formed it. Experts have long debated how this gigantic network of trenches and basins, extending some 500 kilometers across the seafloor, was created. They also found strong evidence of a plate boundary passing through the region, creating the KTC, and moving on. "This thickened, heated crust may have made the region mechanically weaker, so that the plate boundary preferentially shifted here," explains marine geologist Jörg Geldmacher, from GEOMAR. "When the plate boundary later moved further south towards the modern Azores, the formation of the King's Trough also came to a halt," says Geldmacher.

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Got an Irritable Teenager? These Supplements Could Help
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Its main symptom is an excessive reaction to negative emotional stimuli, resulting in temper outbursts and severe irritable mood. Our new research, based on a double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial, shows broad-spectrum micronutrients ( vitamins and minerals) can significantly reduce severe irritability in teenagers. Despite this, research consistently highlights a lack of effective and accessible treatments for severely irritable youth. Parents of participants receiving micronutrients rated the teens' conduct and prosocial behaviour much higher compared with those of teens on placebo. Our findings suggest micronutrients may help address underlying nutritional vulnerabilities that may be more prevalent or more severe in disadvantaged groups.

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SPONSORED | 05 March 2026
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Pollution Linked to Anxiety And Depression, EU Agency Warns
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Environmental pollution is linked to several mental health disorders in Europe, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warned Tuesday, arguing that enforcing legislation would result in Europeans being both less depressed and less anxious. Air, noise, and chemical pollution are to blame in particular, according to the EU agency. "Studies consistently indicate that air pollution, for example, in the form of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), is associated with depression and depressive symptoms," the agency noted in a report. Furthermore, noise pollution, from air and road traffic, may be linked to an increased risk of depression and anxiety, particularly for vulnerable people. "Progress towards zero pollution targets can deliver co-benefits for mental health and well-being," the EEA said.

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A Hidden Shift Inside The Sun Could Help Explain Weak Solar Cycles
NEWS | 05 March 2026
"The Sun's outer layers subtly change across activity cycles, and we found that deep quiet minima can leave a measurable internal fingerprint." One of the clearest manifestations of its dynamic nature is the solar cycle, which is linked to a reversal of its magnetic poles. No two solar cycles are exactly alike, with some maxima stronger than others. The team examined acoustic oscillations inside the Sun – trapped sound waves that bounce through the solar plasma, making the Sun's surface light flicker ever so slightly. Importantly, the 2008 to 2009 minimum was one of the longest and quietest since record-keeping began – and it showed the clearest internal shifts of the four.

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Scientists Discover New Evidence a Common Virus Helps Trigger MS
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Evidence is mounting that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be triggered by one of the most common viruses in the world. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is virtually unavoidable, responsible for what many people refer to as 'kissing disease', otherwise known as infectious mononucleosis or glandular fever. The team has discovered that 'killer' T cells, immune players that can destroy viral pathogens, are more abundant in MS patients. Importantly, most MS patients had markers of EBV present in their CSF, and some of the virus's genes were active. One of these genes was active only in patients with MS, not in those without MS who also harbored EBV.

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Rising CO2 Could Be Altering Our Blood Chemistry, Study Suggests
NEWS | 05 March 2026
In 20 years' worth of health data from a US population database, scientists have found shifts in blood chemistry that, they say, are consistent with higher exposure to CO 2 . It's not dangerous yet, but if the trend continues, some blood chemistry values could approach the limit of today's accepted healthy range by around 2076, according to the researchers' modeling. "If current trends continue, modelling indicates average bicarbonate levels could approach the upper limit of today's accepted healthy range within 50 years. They examined blood chemistry data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which collected samples from approximately 7,000 Americans every two years between 1999 and 2020, to quantify any population-level shift in blood bicarbonate levels. Maybe we can never adapt such that it is vitally important to limit atmospheric levels of CO 2 ."

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Microbes That 'Disarm' Peanut Allergy Proteins Discovered in Mouth And Gut
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Giving people with severe peanut allergies a hefty boost of these microbes could potentially help them cope better with exposure – but that's still a long way off. People with severe peanut allergies produce large amounts of immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies when exposed to peanut proteins, including two called Ara h 1 and 2. Then, the children underwent a routine test to assess the severity of their reactions to peanut proteins. Conversely, patients with a low threshold for peanut exposure had lower levels of Micrococcales bacteria – a taxon that includes Rothia and Micrococcus, which are both adept at breaking down peanut proteins. Rothia had already shown a particularly strong appetite for the two main allergenic peanut proteins in petri dish experiments.

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This Tiny Fish Passed an Intelligence Test That Once Distinguished Great Apes
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Mirror mark tests are a standard scientific experiment used to explore animal self-recognition, gauging how similar other species' intelligence might be to our own. Chimpanzees, elephants, and dolphins are just some that have passed this mark test, which many regard as a sign of intelligence similar to our own. The cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) is a finger-sized marine fish that earned its name by eating the parasites and dead tissue it finds on other, larger fish. It was first reported to pass the mirror test in 2018. It's not hard to see why the cleaner wrasse would make for a good candidate.

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Superagers' 'Secret Ingredient' May Be The Growth of New Brain Cells
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Not only do our brains appear to generate new neurons into adulthood, but those of superagers contain far more brain cells in development than those of healthy peers, new research has found. Scientists used to assume that the brain you were born with was the brain you were stuck with for life. The young healthy adult brain tissue was first analyzed to establish the neurogenesis pathways in the adult brain. I believe hippocampal neurogenesis is the secret ingredient, and the data support that." In the preclinical group, subtle molecular changes hinted that the system supporting new neuron growth was beginning to falter.

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Rare Form of Dementia Causes Man to Fall in Love With One Sound
NEWS | 05 March 2026
Another subtype is frontotemporal dementia, which tends to affect people before age 65. But some researchers believe there's a fourth variant of frontotemporal dementia, as well. About five years after symptoms emerged, CP was diagnosed with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. CP's story also helps to clarify the right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia. Lucy Core, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Brain Behaviour Group, UCLThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Medical Chatbots Are Coming. Here's What You Need to Know Before Using One.
NEWS | 05 March 2026
In January, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health, a new version of its chatbot that the company says can analyze users' medical records, wellness apps, and wearable device data to answer health and medical questions. Even if you haven't given AI access to your medical information, Wachter and others recommend giving the chatbots as many details as possible to improve responses. Both OpenAI and Anthropic say users' health information is kept separate from other types of data and is subject to additional privacy protections. AI chatbots presented with medical scenarios in a comprehensive, written form correctly identified the underlying condition 95% of the time. The study, conducted in 2024, did not use the latest chatbot versions, including new offerings like ChatGPT Health.