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TS-262AD94E8 Oct 2026GeneralA study of a mountain village in Sardinia estimated that the probability of a woman surviving from age 70 to age 100 is approximately three times the equivalent probability for women in the United…TS-4AB271625 Oct 2026GeneralThe proportion of energy derived from fat oxidation is highest during low-intensity exercise and declines as exercise intensity rises, with carbohydrate oxidation taking a progressively larger share.TS-F41FCE5A2 Oct 2026GeneralA meta-analysis of 22 RCTs published in PeerJ found that a single post-exercise cold-water immersion did not improve maximal strength and did not produce a robust reduction in a blood marker of…TS-226753062 Oct 2026GeneralIn a large multi-country prospective cohort, each 5 kg lower baseline handgrip strength was associated with an approximately 16% higher adjusted hazard of all-cause death during follow-up.TS-BF1134DE30 Sept 2026GeneralIn a Phase 2a trial, patients with Alzheimer's disease taking tazbentetol (SPG302) showed measurable improvement on a cognitive assessment after four weeks of treatment.TS-AEA0405A28 Sept 2026GeneralAn umbrella review covering studies with a combined total of roughly 128,000 participants reported that physical activity interventions reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychological…TS-8B3D048427 Sept 2026GeneralA study published in 2026 analyzed 100 commercial dog and cat food products for 34 PFAS compounds and reported detectable PFAS in a large majority of them.TS-BD11D99F26 Sept 2026GeneralA 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis of 14 studies (n=184) reported pooled increases in skeletal muscle mitochondrial volume density (effect size 1.04) and VO2max (effect size 0.75) following…TS-D6A52AE525 Sept 2026GeneralResearch finds that repeated exposure to a statement increases how true people rate it, including for false statements. One leading explanation is processing fluency: repeated material is easier to…TS-E9AF4EAB25 Sept 2026GeneralThe body of scientific research does not support a meaningful causal effect of the full moon on human mood, psychiatric presentation, aggression, or general behavior, and belief in such an effect is…TS-EF90632E24 Sept 2026GeneralResearchers at CHOP and Penn reported that increasing dietary vitamin D to a high dose shifted excess calories toward lean mass and linear growth rather than fat storage, with lower myostatin and…TS-316A50EB23 Sept 2026GeneralA randomized controlled trial of a 655-nm low-level light device, used 25 minutes every other day for 16 weeks (60 sessions) by men with androgenetic alopecia, reported approximately a 35% increase…TS-2F0D2E4922 Sept 2026GeneralA peer-reviewed study reported that a kimchi-derived lactic acid bacterium strain (Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656) adsorbed polystyrene nanoplastics in vitro, retained 57% adsorption efficiency in…TS-DE66FF8A22 Sept 2026GeneralA 2007 paper in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory reported that healthy young male participants acquired novel vocabulary approximately 20% faster immediately following high intensity sprints than…TS-F7CF2EDC22 Sept 2026GeneralA 2026 paper in Healthcare by Carpentier and colleagues reports that in 36 adults with overweight or obesity, 10 weeks of supervised whole-body HIIT was associated with improvements in peak oxygen…TS-431A288521 Sept 2026GeneralA preprint by Whelan and colleagues on medRxiv reported that a low dose of psilocybin increased connectivity between several large-scale brain networks in autistic participants. The claim further…TS-48F6AFAF20 Sept 2026GeneralA 2024 British Journal of Sports Medicine meta-analysis of 218 RCTs and over 14,000 participants reported benefits of physical activity for general cognition, memory, and executive function.TS-5F6C2BE619 Sept 2026GeneralA published meta-analysis of 13 studies with 1,158 participants reported a non-significant pooled effect (−0.03, p = 0.508) for greater fat loss in an exercised body region compared with an untrained…TS-76995FCF18 Sept 2026GeneralA 2025 paper in npj Parkinson's Disease reported that brief, cyclic exposure to elevated CO2 over roughly 30 minutes was followed by increased plasma concentrations of several brain-derived proteins,…TS-450DBD1C18 Sept 2026GeneralA biologist's investigation of an unusual cat held at a Bolivian wildlife sanctuary resulted in the formal scientific description of a small spotted wild cat from Bolivia's Yungas cloud forest, named…TS-D6E16D9E17 Sept 2026GeneralA study published in eLife applied transient expression of reprogramming factors for 13 days to cultured dermal fibroblasts from middle-aged human donors. The cells returned to fibroblast identity,…TS-95E834D113 Sept 2026GeneralA 2025 systematic review and meta-regression in Sports Medicine, covering 353 research articles and roughly 6,000 participants, reported an approximately 23% increase in skeletal muscle mitochondrial…TS-699C1F7813 Sept 2026GeneralIn a published mouse study, a single 0.01 mg/kg intraperitoneal injection of cariprazine given before a learning task improved recognition and spatial memory performance in two genetic mouse models…TS-9F9D813B12 Sept 2026GeneralA 2026 observational cohort study from Oxford Population Health's Cancer Epidemiology Unit reported that people who said they usually drank tea or coffee "very hot" had roughly three times the rate…TS-F053B72E11 Sept 2026GeneralA study conducted at Yale reported that the same milkshake produced a substantially steeper post-consumption decline in blood ghrelin when it was labeled as high-calorie and indulgent than when it…TS-96FC5B349 Sept 2026GeneralA 2026 paper by Xue et al. in International Journal of Pharmaceutics reports that a platelet-derived nanovesicle/lipid-nanoparticle hybrid carrying COL3A1 mRNA reduced wrinkle area by 86.5% at day 21…TS-D94290067 Sept 2026GeneralAn observational analysis of UK Biobank data covering roughly 90,900 adults, presented as a conference abstract at ESC Congress 2024, reported that participants in the quartile with the most weekend…TS-DF667EB05 Sept 2026GeneralA study analysing over 22 million European property listings estimates that a large share of Europeans on average incomes could afford to purchase only about 50 square metres of housing, and that 39%…TS-72A8E5CD31 Aug 2026GeneralA randomized trial led by Benjamin Levine at UT Southwestern found that two years of structured exercise training in previously sedentary middle-aged adults reduced left ventricular stiffness and…TS-6EC84E0630 Aug 2026GeneralIn a study indexed as PubMed 35785965, adding a 15-minute sauna session after exercise for 8 weeks produced a 2.7 mL/kg/min greater improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness than exercise alone. The…TS-F4EBF7E630 Aug 2026GeneralA published preclinical study reports that a polymer nanogel platform (Nano-ERASER / TN-PTBP1) delivered antibodies across the blood-brain barrier into astrocytes, degraded the PTBP1 protein, induced…TS-E88C7CB728 Aug 2026GeneralAn observational study of 40,725 US adults, published in the European Heart Journal in 2025 with a median follow-up of 9.8 years, reported that a coffee drinking pattern concentrated in the morning…TS-FED5289D26 Aug 2026GeneralSome human trials report increases in muscle thickness and maximal strength following prolonged daily static stretching interventions without resistance training, and the post asserts these gains are…TS-D06DC22F22 Aug 2026GeneralA single randomized human experiment published in Current Biology found that a group performing aerobic exercise four hours after encoding picture-location associations showed better memory retention…TS-A36DFFA619 Aug 2026GeneralA controlled study reported that five weeks of heat training (five 50 minute sessions per week) increased total hemoglobin mass by roughly 4.0% in female participants and 3.5% in male participants.TS-5909C3BF16 Aug 2026GeneralA researcher named Brian Timmer, affiliated with National Geographic, published evidence that bull kelp forests in part of the Salish Sea declined substantially in the 1970s and early 1980s, decades…TS-BC8A418812 Aug 2026GeneralIn a study population of collegiate athletes, about 39 percent reported habitually sleeping less than 7 hours, over half scored in the range indicating excessive daytime sleepiness, and 85 percent…TS-966015F311 Aug 2026GeneralA large international survey-based analysis reported an association between receiving a first smartphone at age 12 or younger and lower self-reported mental wellbeing scores in 18 to 24 year olds,…TS-CD77A18D11 Aug 2026GeneralA peer-reviewed observational study of 389,481 fitness app users identified early training consistency (first 28 days) as the strongest measured predictor of continued app-recorded training at 12…TS-453D2F659 Aug 2026GeneralAn in vitro study published in the journal Veterinary World reports that a methanolic extract of Hericium erinaceus reduced proliferation, induced apoptosis markers, and altered…TS-87C8ADC79 Aug 2026GeneralA 2026 network meta-analysis of 105 randomized controlled trials, comparing seven exercise modalities in adults with prehypertension or hypertension, reported the largest systolic blood pressure…TS-57F1CA789 Aug 2026GeneralA research group based in a dermatology department, originally studying sex bias in autoimmune disease, published findings identifying a gene whose dysregulation appears to drive preeclampsia, and…TS-D638C1488 Aug 2026GeneralA 2023 observational analysis of UK Biobank participants reported that self-reported dietary magnesium intake was cross-sectionally associated with modestly larger MRI-measured brain volumes, with…TS-233E81167 Aug 2026GeneralA published study reports that ovarian cancer cells rendered senescent by chemotherapy secrete fructose, which lowers plasma membrane cholesterol in neighbouring tumour cells and increases their…TS-92DF93F62 Aug 2026GeneralAn 8 week trial in resistance trained adults, in which participants performed one set of each of nine exercises twice weekly, reported increases in muscle size and strength.TS-CF6735831 Aug 2026GeneralA 2022 meta-analysis of RCTs in J Obstet Gynaecol Res reported a statistically significant reduction in overall PMS severity with omega-3 supplementation, with significant effects in both somatic and…TS-D13C980723 Jul 2026GeneralAn Instagram post attributes to the University of Colorado Boulder an 8-week, 214-adult controlled study finding that the reverse cowgirl sexual position produces higher energy expenditure, more…TS-EED3331A17 Jul 2026GeneralA 2025 article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Harding et al., titled "Musical neurodynamics," argues that music perception can be explained by neural resonance theory, the idea that the brain's…TS-E94E66043 Jul 2026GeneralA dose-response meta-analysis (Jayedi, Gohari, and Shab-Bidar, 2022, PMID 34417979) reported a roughly 12% lower risk of all-cause mortality per additional 1,000 steps per day, across a specific…TS-82880EE72 Jul 2026GeneralA group of captive chimpanzees has been observed inserting blades of grass or sticks into their ears and rectums, and researchers characterize this behavior as a socially learned trend.