It isn’t entirely clear why bowel cancer is on the rise among adults under 50STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Rates of bowel cancer in younger adults have increased in countries around the world, though the trend appears to be most common...
December 11, 20242 min readInjuries from Electric Bikes and Scooters Have Tripled. Here’s What to KnowFollowing a startling spike in electric scooter and e-bike injuries, epidemiologists warn of inadequate infrastructure and safety rulesBy Ben GuarinoEmergency department visits involving e-scooters have...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is confronting a health crisis in the remote Panzi health zone of Kwango Province, where an undiagnosed illness has infected more than 400 people and killed at least 31, predominantly malnourished children under...
December 11, 20244 min readA Rapidly Warming Arctic Looks Dramatically Different Now Than It Did 20 Years AgoRising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its historical normsBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E NewsAn aerial...
December 11, 20242 min readLuigi Mangione Said He Had Spondylolisthesis: What Is It?The suspect in the recent shooting of a UnitedHealthcare CEO reportedly had spondylolisthesis, a condition that causes the vertebrae to go out of alignmentBy Tanya LewisX-ray of a...
High blood pressure is a common symptom of pre-eclampsiaNataliya Piatrovich/Alamy Delivering babies early, when possible, is currently the only way to deal with the common pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia. But the condition has now been successfully treated in mice by delivering...
A gallium cast used to make a channel system in a soft gel, mimicking blood vesselsSubramanian Sundaram/BU and Harvard University Lab-grown organs for transplant are one step closer thanks to a technique for making artificial blood vessels using 3D printers...
The sun may have created a vast mass of water gas by heating asteroidsESA/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, M.A. Garlick (space-art.co.uk), University of Warwick, and University of Cambridge. A vast cloud of vapour expelled from boiled asteroids may have lingered in...
Pigeons have a lot more going on that you might assume I had always felt ambivalent towards pigeons. Pigeons are everywhere in London, where I live, and that made them fade into the background for me. I didn’t hate them,...
This year will be remembered for many pioneering events, from the first private landing on the moon (see “Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by Elon Musk boomed”) to the first pig kidney transplants in living...
