Midlife weight gain can start long before menopause – but you can take steps early on to help your body weather the hormonal shift
Hormone changes that begin years before menopause can cause gradual muscle loss and increased insulin resistance.Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesYou’re in your mid-40s, eating healthy...
Vinaya Gogineni, Obesity Medicine Fellow, Vanderbilt University
New materials, old physics – the science behind how your winter jacket keeps you warm
Modern winter jackets use a few time-honored physics principles to keep you warm. Magda Indigo/Moment via Getty ImagesAs the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pullin...
Longji Cui, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next
AI image and video generators now produce fully lifelike content.AI-generated image by Siwei Lyu using Google Gemini 3Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voic...
Siwei Lyu, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Director, UB Media Forensic Lab, University at Buffalo
Who thinks Republicans will suffer in the 2026 midterms? Republican members of Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson will have to defend a narrow majority in the 2026 elections. A near-recor…
Resolve to network at your employer’s next ‘offsite’ – research shows these retreats actually help f…
Getting to know new colleagues over a short period of time can pay off later on.Tom Werner/DigitalVi…
West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geo…
The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collaps…
How the ‘slayer rule’ might play a role in determining who will inherit wealth from Rob Reiner and h…
Michele Singer Reiner and Rob Reiner pose with their children, Jake, Romy and Nick, far right, at a …
The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society – 250 years later, they’re part …
In the Shakers' early years, dance was one of the most distinct aspects of the Christian group's wor…
From truce in the trenches to cocktails at the consulate: How Christmas diplomacy seeks to exploit s…
British and German troops observe a temporary truce on Christmas Day 1914.Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via…
As DOJ begins to release Epstein files, his many victims deserve more attention than the powerful me…
Passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, backed by many of Epstein's alleged victims and famil…