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Engineers patented an artificial tooth that turns ordinary chewing into electricity — pressure from every bite flexes a tiny piezoelectric generator inside the tooth, harvesting jaw movement that could help keep small wearable electronics charged without plugging them in

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (347+ words) Your molars could soon be a renewable power source, turning the force of everyday chewing into electricity for devices you wear. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in the United States…...

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Birdwatching and mental health: what the research actually shows about the mood boost from birds

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (48+ words) Birdwatching has an unfair reputation as a gentle hobby for the retired, all binoculars and quiet patience. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Follow Science Blog on Google Add us as a preferred source to see…...

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A December 2025 study of more than 30,000 older adults found that social isolation accelerated cognitive decline whether people felt lonely or not — and only 6% of the effect could be explained by loneliness itself.

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (855+ words) A 30,421-person study separated objective social isolation from subjective loneliness and estimated that loneliness mediated only 6 percent of isolation's cognitive effect. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit Feeling perfectly content with one’s own company…...

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Microsoft's AI diagnostic system correctly solved up to 85.5% of 304 exceptionally difficult medical cases adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine — while 21 experienced physicians averaged just 20% under the same benchmark conditions.

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (799+ words) Microsoft's diagnostic orchestrator posted a striking result on 304 rare medical puzzles, but the benchmark was text-based, the work remains a preprint, and revised figures differ. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 14, 2026 · How we edit Microsoft reported an…...

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A 2025 study in Scientific Reports found that pet owners who leaned on animals as a substitute for human company were not less lonely for it; the substitution itself was linked to more loneliness, and that loneliness explained the drop in wellbeing

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (770+ words) ScienceBlog.com Jaining Li and Nichol Wong, at the Education University of Hong Kong, published a study in October 2025 in Scientific Reports that looked at exactly this pattern, pet owners who lean on animals specifically in place of people, and…...

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The claim that the nicest people end up the loneliest has spread widely this year, and the largest meta-analysis on personality and loneliness, covering 93,668 people across 113 studies, points the other way

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (717+ words) A meta-analysis of 113 studies and 93,668 people finds agreeableness is associated with less loneliness, not more. The popular claim describes a narrower pattern that researchers measure separately, and the evidence for it stops short of where the claim goes. By Science…...

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Exosomes, Hypothalamus, and the Body Clock

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (583+ words) Tiny vesicles from young animals can reverse aging in older ones, but the real mystery may lie in who controls the body's master clock. By Josh Mitteldorf · Editorial process Published July 27, 2026 The body has an aging clock that broadcasts instructions…...

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The blood-brain barrier lets glucose and ketones cross freely, but blocks 98% of small-molecule drugs — and the tight junctions doing the filtering are only about 4 nanometers wide

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (789+ words) The endothelial cells lining the blood vessels of your brain are stitched together so tightly that the gaps between them measure roughly 4 nanometers — about the width of a strand of DNA, and small enough to exclude more than 98% of every…...

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scienceblog.com > scientists-identify-a-cell-type-in-the-brain-that-was-previously-ignored-and-it-may-explain-why-human-memory-has-no-known-upper-limit

Scientists identify a cell type in the brain that was previously ignored and it may explain why human memory has no known upper limit

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (192+ words) For nearly two centuries, neuroscience has been telling a story about the human brain that centres almost entirely on one kind of cell. The neuron — the...

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scienceblog.com > sb-parkinsons-spreads-through-the-brain-like-an-infection-and-yale-researchers-just-found-the-two-doorways-the-toxic-protein-uses-to-get-in

A Parkinson's-linked protein can spread from cell to cell, and Yale researchers found the two-protein complex that appears to help it get inside neurons and trigger damage

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (717+ words) A protein associated with Parkinson's disease can move from one brain cell to another. Yale researchers have now identified an interacting pair of...