Meta: The truth about donanemab, lecanemab and the new class of Alzheimer’s drugs
[ad_1] Illustration of amyloid plaques (orange) among brain cells Science Photo Library/Alamy In early July, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a treatment
AI put in charge of setting variable speed limits on I-24 freeway
[ad_1] Speed limits on a section of the I-24 in Tennessee are being managed by AI Daniel Dempster Photography/Alamy Drivers on a busy US freeway
Anti-methane vaccine could reduce the huge climate impact of cow burps
[ad_1] A prototype vaccine from ArkeaBio, a US start-up, cut methane emissions by 13 per cent in a first trial involving 10 cows, offering a
How does the Olympics test for doping and is it good enough?
[ad_1] Members of the World Anti-Doping Agency at a press conference for the Olympic Games in Paris, France, on 25 July MAXIM THORE/BILDBYRÅN/Shutterstock With the
Oldest rocks on Earth may contain strange and ancient life forms
[ad_1] Unusual cells without walls can create structures (main image) that resemble those found in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks from Buck Reef, South Africa (inset) Dheeraj Kanaparthi
Ozempic and Wegovy could help people quit smoking
[ad_1] Ozempic could treat many more conditions than just type 2 diabetes and obesity myskin/Shutterstock Another study adds credence to the idea that semaglutide –
Bronze Age hoards hint that market economies arose surprisingly early
[ad_1] A hoard of Bronze Age metal fragments from Weißig, Germany J. Lipták/Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen Bronze Age Europeans earned and spent money in much
First stars: The search for the stars that changed the history of the universe
[ad_1] akinbostanci/Getty Images As turning points in cosmic history go, the birth of the first stars is hard to beat. When they flickered into existence
Controversial idea to save corals would replace them with new species
[ad_1] Could drastic action help restore coral reefs? Serge Melesan / Alamy Corals are being hit so hard by global warming that the only way
Particle physicists may have solved a strange mystery about the muon
[ad_1] In experiments, subatomic particles don’t always behave as theory would predict ATLAS Collaboration The puzzling behaviour of a fundamental particle called a muon, which