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Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent fasting-style diet led to significant weight loss, healthier metabolic markers, and notable shifts in gut bacteria. Brain scans…
What is so micro about tonight’s blue micromoon?
New research shows that people released from prison are significantly less likely to reoffend if they are subject to supervision and other license requirements—especially first-time prisoners.
‘She listens to Dolly Parton now. She’s exposed to all kinds of things being in jail, because she’s got nothing but time.’
On Episode 212 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Space.com’s Mike Wall to discuss the loss of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.
What is it about the Blue Moon that inspires us to write songs and name beers after it?
He-Man isn’t the only one with a sword.
Highlights from the last week of May, 2026: A key climate tipping point is disrupting the Arctic Ocean food chain (more of a lowlight, I guess). Scuba-diving tourism may not be the benefit to coral reef systems that we once…
Don’t miss 2026’s smallest full moon with this livestream from Italy with the Virtual Telescope Project. The ‘Blue Moon’ livestream will begin at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT).
Nearly 5,000 years ago, respiratory infections, possibly including tuberculosis, were ravaging the children buried at Camino del Molino (CMOL), Spain. The massive circular burial cave carved into rock is Europe’s largest Copper Age mass burial, containing over 1,300 individuals, and…