Oct 14, 2026 by Natali Anderson

A new review paper published in the journal Nutrition Research Reviews points to nutrients in the nut that play roles in sleep biology. Pistachios are...

Oct 13, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossils from Montana show a small oviraptorosaur with a jaw that slid front to back, a feature shared with fruit-eating parrots. Infernogallus jamesi,...

Oct 12, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and Massachusetts General Hospital have found that people who reported eating late at night had...

Oct 7, 2026 by News Staff

A long-running British trial has found that people who drank diet beverages while trying to lose weight kept the pounds off about as well as those who...

Oct 1, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists studying Cretaceous fossils have repeatedly found that the teeth of many ancient animals contain more of a heavier carbon isotope, carbon-13,...

Sep 28, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Clostridium immunis, a human gut bacterium, secretes a large sugar molecule that can shrink visceral fat and curb weight gain in mice, according to a paper...

Sep 23, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr. Dirk Knaust, a geologist with the Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA, has identified plesiosaur regurgitalites — the technical term for fossilized...

Sep 16, 2026 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a previously unknown species of mosasaur — a group of extinct marine reptiles that patrolled Cretaceous seas alongside...

Sep 14, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Long before sharks or reptiles ruled the seas, armor-plated fish called placoderms were already experimenting with different jaw designs to crush hard-shelled...

Sep 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani — an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the North American...

Aug 31, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Not all diets are created equal when it comes to reversing the metabolic damage of obesity, even when they produce the same amount of weight loss, according...

Aug 21, 2026 by News Staff

Researchers at King’s College London have identified a surprising new therapeutic mechanism for a type of heart failure called heart failure with preserved...

Aug 17, 2026 by Sergio Prostak

Two fossilized leg bones of Denisovans — an extinct archaic Homo group whose lineage diverged from the Neanderthal lineage 550,000 years ago and...

Aug 17, 2026 by News Staff

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa have identified a molecular pathway that may explain how folic...

Aug 6, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow argues that dietary sugars, not animal foods, may have played the decisive...

Aug 4, 2026 by Natali Anderson

In a perspective paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a team of researchers and health experts calls for a ‘paradigm shift’...

Jul 27, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Adding breakfast back into the daily routine of teens around age 18 who habitually skip the meal can meaningfully improve their nutrition, with the biggest...

Jul 20, 2026 by News Staff

A new review of previous studies in the journal Appetite undercuts the popular belief that water fills you up at the table. Meanwhile, a companion study...

Jul 15, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence that Tyrannosaurus rex fed on...

Jul 15, 2026 by News Staff

New research from Columbia University found that adults who cut their sleep by about 80 minutes for six weeks packed on a pound (0.45 kg) and moved less...