What risk does wildfire smoke pose during late-term pregnancies? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Science & Technology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link…
New ways to monitor your teen’s phone use are coming to Snapchat, as the app adds new screen time and contact monitoring tools for parents.
Starting today, parents and guardians linked…
Large language models (LLMs), the computational models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other widely used artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, can rapidly source information and generate texts tailored for specific purposes….
January 22, 2026
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Parents might age faster or slower based on how many kids they have
A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But…
Prepping for the SAT is nobody’s idea of fun, but Google aims to make it less stressful with AI. The company announced that it’s now focusing its AI education efforts on standardized testing with free SAT practice exams powered by…
Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or trauma, Stanford Medicine researchers have found. If results from their study, which was conducted in mice, translate to…
A pill version of the popular weight-management drug Wegovy has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now available through various pharmacies and telehealth services in the U.S.
The drug has been available by…
By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the origins of life on Earth and possibly recognize…
New research from Curtin University has delivered the strongest scientific evidence yet that people, not glaciers, transported Stonehenge’s famous bluestones to the ancient site in southern England.
The findings challenge a long-standing…
Scientists have discovered how a toxic protein drains brain energy in Parkinson’s and how to stop it. Roughly 1 million people in the United States are living with Parkinson’s disease, and about 90,000 new cases are identified each year,…
