A mind-bending parasite may one day deliver drugs to the brain. Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled parasite that famously makes mice lose their fear of cats, but also can cause deadly foodborne illnesses (SN: 1/14/20).… Getting drugs into the brain is hard. Maybe a parasite can do the job

People with advanced cancers often feel like their bodies are wasting away. Thats because of cachexia, a condition in which impaired metabolism leads to muscle wasting and drastic weight loss (SN: 4/15/15). A new study… Stopping cachexia at its source could reverse wasting from cancer

Forever chemicals are everywhere.  Theyre in school uniforms, food packaging, cosmetics and personal care products (SNE: 11/18/22; SN: 6/4/19; SN: 6/15/21). They seep into our food and drinking water. And now new research suggests that… Some forever chemicals may be absorbed through our skin

An ancient Egyptian mummy, dubbed the Screaming Woman for what appears to be an open-mouthed look of pain or fear, might have had that expression fixed in place by a rare muscle reaction when she… An Egyptian mummys silent scream might have been fixed at death

Stonehenge had a hard Scottish heart, a new study suggests. The ancient sites central stone, a large slab known as the Altar Stone, consists of rock transported at least 750 kilometers from northeastern Scotland to… Stonehenges mysterious Altar Stone had roots in Scotland

Reading peoples faces can literally give you a hint of how they are feeling on the inside. Mapping the faces hot and cool spots can provide clues to a persons biological age that is, how… Your faces hot spots may reveal how well you are aging

Imagine going on a weeklong business trip and not coming home until the following year. That may be the situation for U.S. astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose eight-day mission to the International Space… Astronauts actually get stuck in space all the time

Access to clean water is a human right one that half of the world may not have. Out of the roughly 8 billion people on Earth, more than 4.4 billion lack access to safely managed… More than 4 billion people may not have access to clean water

In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 10 percent of children die before they turn 5 years old (SN: 8/3/22); in 2022 alone, around 2.8 million young children died in the entire region. Most are… Expanding antibiotic treatment in sub-Saharan Africa could save kids lives

Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The radiant environment inside a microwave oven can seem inhospitable to germs. But swabs from microwave ovens in several different areas identified more… Some bacteria can thrive in microwave ovens