Health & Biology
How Radiology Changed Healthcare: From X-Rays to Smart Diagnosis
Radiology is more than just X-rays. See how it evolved, how it works, and how AI is making diagnosis faster, safer, and better for everyone
Health & Biology
The Brain’s Ability to Change and Its Role in Depression
Depression has affected humans for hundreds of years. Symptoms can include persistent feelings of sadness, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and a loss of interest in social activities. Science doesn’t yet fully understand the causes and effects, but here’s what we do know: the brain is a powerful organ, and it is capable of change. Made up of a wide network of connections, it relies on chemicals, electrical impulses, and billions of neurons. Let’s explore how brain science
Life on Earth
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS): Can We Really Trap Our Way Out of Climate Change?
Explore how Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) works, its role in hard-to-abate industries, and how geology helps trap CO₂ to combat climate change.
Health & Biology
Promising Latest Treatment That Could Calm Anxiety for Millions of Americans
Today, generalized anxiety disorder is affecting millions of Americans. The disorder usually traps the sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation in a way that even standard treatments cannot relieve completely. UCSF neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, is testing a surprising brand-new approach that can ease symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder by reshaping how the brain thinks and feels.
Health & Biology
The Life Insurance of Our Genes: How Protein BRD2 and Acetylation Dictate Cellular Rhythm
Cells can be understood as highly coordinated systems in which DNA functions as a comprehensive but inert blueprint, requiring precise interpretation to become biologically active. Gene expression depends on regulatory proteins that orchestrate transcription across time and space.
Health & Biology
Scanxiety: What is it and how to cope with it?
Many times, individuals feel fearful or extremely worried about cancer testing. The regular tests and scans that patients living with any cancer diagnosis have to undergo, to monitor their condition, can make them feel anxious before, during, or after a scan or a follow-up test
Discoveries
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) – Merging the Mind with Machines
Imagine being able to control a computer, a prosthetic limb, or even a drone just by using your thoughts. This is not science fiction; it is now a reality thanks to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). BCIs are groundbreaking systems that enable direct communication between the brain and external devices.
Health & Biology
Organoid-Based Toxicity Testing as a Replacement for Animal Models
Animal models have traditionally served as the cornerstone of drug safety evaluation; however, major translational challenges persist due to interspecies differences in physiology, metabolism, and genetic regulation. Many compounds demonstrating favorable toxicity profiles in animals later fail during human trials or are withdrawn post-marketing due to unforeseen adverse effects, especially hepatotoxicity and cardiotoxicity (Lee et al., 2025).
Health & Biology
Common Misconceptions About Hypertension
For many people, it is often assumed to be a “Stress disease”. Others casually refer to it as an “Old man’s disease” based on the myth that it affects only the elderly. These assumptions, however banal, are misleading and potentially lethal.
Health & Biology
How EMT experience shapes future doctors
ears pass in schoolrooms where future doctors study life's inner workings, cells, chemicals, and body parts. From books they recall illness patterns, how molecules bond, ways to spot health troubles
Technology
AI for Early Disease Prediction: How Algorithms Detect Illness Before Symptoms
Can algorithms predict sickness before you feel it? Explore how AI is using smartwatch data and ECGs to detect diseases like Alzheimer's and AFib early.
Health & Biology
Balancing Accuracy and Energy in Cellular Signalling: How MAPK Cascades Are Optimized for Real Biological Constraints
Cells constantly sense signals from their environment and convert them into internal actions through biochemical signalling pathways.
Health & Biology
Hormones, Neurons, and Behavior: Lessons from the Zebrafish Brain
What if one of the most powerful models for understanding the human brain were less than an inch long, transparent, and living in a small tank? Meet Danio rerio, the zebrafish.
Health & Biology
Fregoli Delusion: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Fregoli Syndrome
Out of so many mental disorders, a rare disorder is the Fregoli delusion or Fregoli syndrome (FS), in which an individual holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person, who keeps on changing appearances quickly or is in disguise. People affected with this condition often experience anxiety, paranoia, and agitation. It can impact the patient’s mental health and their safety and the safety of others.
Health & Biology
Beyond the Needle: The Rise of Inhalable Vaccines
Inhalable vaccines trigger powerful mucosal immunity where pathogens enter the body, offering needle-free protection against respiratory diseases.
Health & Biology
From Evidence to Practice: Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation in Modern Sport
Injury is an inherent risk of sport participation. Whether at elite or recreational level, athletes are exposed to physical loads that challenge tissue capacity and recovery.
Space & Astronomy
Are We Close to Finding Life Beyond Earth?
Scientists are closer than ever to detecting life beyond Earth. From Mars to distant exoplanets, modern astronomy is transforming the search for alien life.
Health & Biology
Why a Tiny Fruit Fly Helps Us Understand Human Health
Small fruit fly is an excellent model organism used by scientists to study various aspect of human health and diseases such as development, regeneration, wound healing, cancer and stem cell research
Health & Biology
The Hidden Elasticity of Sound: Why Humans Are Evolutionarily Tuned for Music and Speech
The human ear is often described as one of the most sophisticated sensory systems in biology. Within a structure no larger than a seashell, the auditory system can detect frequencies ranging from the faint rumble of distant thunder to the subtle harmonic texture of a violin string
Health & Biology
Diabetes and what you should know
I have debunked certain myths surrounding diabetes and explained what it is in a way that is relatable and understandable to my readers. Upon reading the article, you will learn more about your body and what to look out for as well as the importance of routine checks in the lives of an individual.
