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Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turned Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure
NEWS | 04 March 2026
Further translation revealed that the stone commemorated a Roman soldier, a Thracian named Sextus Congenius Verus. The grave marker was among those later listed as missing. Its exact measurements, as recorded by the museum, matched those of the tablet found in Santoro and Lopez's garden. Let's put it outside in our garden," O'Brien told Preservation in Print. The FBI's Art Crime Team is coordinating its repatriation to the National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia.

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Scientists Discover New Evidence a Common Virus Helps Trigger MS
NEWS | 04 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 | 04 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 | 04 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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Common Supplement Shows a Concerning Link to Heart Failure
NEWS | 04 March 2026
frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen">The research was presented last November at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. "Melatonin supplements may not be as harmless as commonly assumed," medical scientist Ekenedilichukwu Nnadi at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Primary Care in New York said at the time. A melatonin supplement replicates a hormone naturally produced by the brain to help keep the body's internal clock ticking. In the US and many other nations, melatonin supplements are available over the counter, which means patients can take them without medical guidance or supervision on dosage or length of use. A secondary analysis found that those who took melatonin for over a year were almost 3.5 times as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure when compared to those not taking melatonin.

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SPONSORED | 04 March 2026
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Superagers' 'Secret Ingredient' May Be The Growth of New Brain Cells
NEWS | 04 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 | 04 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 | 04 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.

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NASA Announces Major Change to Plans For Putting Humans on The Moon
NEWS | 04 March 2026
As we wait for the historic Artemis II mission – with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on board – NASA has announced major changes to the Artemis program. This would make it over three years since the first Artemis mission. (KBR/Axiom Space)The crew may also test the new spacesuits designed by Axiom Space, which is important because these suits haven't yet been worn for an actual space mission. This is the small space station that will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program. As the name might suggest, Canadarm3 is Canada's next-generation robotic arm and is a $2-billion contribution to the Artemis program.

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Viagra May Be One of Our Best Existing Options For an Alzheimer's Treatment
NEWS | 04 March 2026
A recent ranking of existing drugs and vaccines has nominated the erectile dysfunction treatment marketed under the brand name of Viagra as one of our best options to protect individuals against Alzheimer's disease. We therefore recommend each of these therapeutic approaches as a high priority for clinical trials for the treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease." The next stage in the process – comprehensive clinical trials – should tell us much more about how helpful these treatments can be. "It's important to stress that these drugs need further investigation before we will know whether they can be used to treat or prevent Alzheimer's," says Corbett. "We now need to see robust clinical trials to understand their true value and know for certain if they are effective to treat or prevent Alzheimer's."

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Two Cancers Have Links With Talc. An Expert Explains The Science.
NEWS | 04 March 2026
More than 1,300 Victorians have joined a class action against Johnson & Johnson alleging its talcum powder products left them with ovarian cancer, mesothelioma (cancer affecting the lungs), and other cancers affecting the reproductive organs. In 2023, Johnson & Johnson stopped selling talc in its products worldwide, including in Australia, switching instead to a cornflour base. Some human studies have found products containing talc are linked with higher rates of ovarian cancer. So what does all the currently available evidence say about the relationship between talc usage and ovarian cancer? The evidence suggests talc does not increase the risk of other gynaecological cancers, such as uterine and cervical.

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Neanderthal DNA Is Missing From Our X Chromosome. This Could Be Why.
NEWS | 04 March 2026
Did human women venture into Neanderthal populations, or were the Neanderthal males drawn to larger human enclaves? In particular, there is a surprising lack of Neanderthal DNA in the human X chromosome, one of the bundles of genes in each cell known as a sex chromosome, compared with the amount of Neanderthal DNA in the other, non-sex chromosomes. When comparing these genes, they found more of a human fingerprint on the Neanderthal X chromosome – the same chromosome that, in humans, has less Neanderthal DNA than would be expected. If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years, you would expect to see just what they found: more human DNA in Neanderthal X chromosomes and less Neanderthal DNA in human X chromosomes. For example, Zhang said, it's possible that the offspring of human males and Neanderthal females just didn't survive as well.

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One Simple Trick Could Help Tardigrades Survive in Martian Dirt
NEWS | 04 March 2026
Tardigrades are renowned for their exceptional survival skills, but one environment has been found to test them to the limit. Exposed to a mix of minerals designed to replicate dirt found on Mars, two different species of tardigrades struggled to survive, declining rapidly in numbers in just a few days. If we ever try to build functioning soil ecosystems on Mars, organisms like tardigrades could help regulate microbial communities. "We know a lot about bacteria and fungi in simulated regolith, but very little about how they impact animals – even microscopic animals, like tardigrades," Bakermans says. Groups of each species were placed in two different Mars regolith simulants, called MGS-1 and OUCM-1, and observed for several days.

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The Microbes in Your Dog's Gut May Predict Their Cancer Prognosis
NEWS | 04 March 2026
No pet lover wants to hear this, but around 6 million dogs are diagnosed with cancer in the US every year. A new study suggests certain types of bacteria in the gut microbiomes of dogs with cancer are somehow linked to how long these dogs survive after immunotherapy treatment. Fifty-one canine cancer patients at the Bridge Animal Referral Center in the US were enrolled for a clinical trial of a cancer immunotherapy vaccine that has already shown a lot of promise. That suggests a dog's gut bacteria could be modulating its immune responses, even against non-intestinal cancers such as osteosarcoma (a kind of bone cancer) or hemangiosarcoma (cancer of the blood vessels). Related: Breakthrough Cancer Vaccine For Dogs Is 'Truly Revolutionary', Scientist Says"In the future, an analysis of a microbiome swab could help predict how well a dog might respond to a cancer treatment," Shulzhenko says.