For The First Time In History Medicare Is Covering Weight Loss Drugs And The Price Is $50 A Month
Starting July 1, 2026 eligible Medicare enrollees will be able to access GLP-1 weight loss medications including Wegovy, Zepbound, and the newer drug Foundayo for a flat $50 monthly copay, in a historic first for the program, which has never before covered anti-obesity medications despite covering many of the serious health conditions that obesity contributes […]
Swedish Scientists Just Grew The Cells Type 1 Diabetes Destroys From Scratch
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a more reliable method for growing insulin-producing cells from human stem cells, and the results published in Stem Cell Reports represent one of the most encouraging steps yet toward a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes develops when […]
New Research Reveals The Personality Trait That Predicts Whether You Will Seek Out A Cat When Stressed
A study published in the journal Anthrozoös, conducted by researchers at Washington State University and KU Leuven in Belgium, has identified the personality trait most likely to predict whether someone will seek out a cat for stress relief rather than a dog, and the answer has a name: emotionality. Researchers surveyed more than 1,400 university […]
Scientists Just Proved That Your Brain Can Dream While You Are Wide Awake
A study from the Paris Brain Institute, published in Cell Reports, has overturned something most people take for granted: that dreaming and waking are two cleanly separate mental states, each with their own type of thoughts. Researchers monitored 92 adults using EEG caps as they drifted into and out of light sleep during daytime rest […]
A Kitten Found Covered Head To Tail In Industrial Glue Just Made A Full Recovery And Has A New Home
When a good Samaritan in Fort Worth, Texas, discovered a small kitten stuck in a bucket of industrial-strength glue near an industrial area in April and rushed him to the Humane Society of North Texas, shelter staff were not sure the tiny animal would survive the night. The glue was covering every part of his […]
The FDA Just Gave Pancreatic Cancer Patients Early Access To A Pill That Doubled Survival Time
The Food and Drug Administration has authorized early expanded access to a new pill called daraxonrasib, developed by Revolution Medicines, giving patients with advanced pancreatic cancer a chance to receive the experimental treatment while it awaits full regulatory approval, in a move the agency completed just two days after receiving the request. Pancreatic cancer is […]
Communities Across America Are Banning AI Data Centers And The Number Just Jumped From 8 To 78
According to the U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker, communities across the country have been pushing back against the rapid expansion of AI data centers with growing success, with the number of active bans and moratoriums jumping from just 8 in May 2025 to 78 today, including 50 active restrictions and 4 permanent bans, in a […]
An Alaska Animal Shelter Lets You Borrow A Dog For 48 Hours And It Is Leading To More Adoptions
The Anchorage Animal Care and Control shelter in Alaska launched a program in spring 2025 called Tails on Trails that has since become one of the most talked-about shelter initiatives in the country, pairing volunteers with a shelter dog for 48 hours and sending them out to explore the trails and wilderness around Anchorage together. […]
Scientists Gave Monkeys A Reward-Free Video Game And They Played Nearly 100 Rounds Anyway
Researchers at Kyoto University’s Institute for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior set out to test whether curiosity in Japanese macaques follows the same pattern observed in humans, and what they found should resonate with anyone who has ever gone down a late-night internet rabbit hole for no practical reason whatsoever. The team built a […]
Scientists May Have Finally “Seen” Dark Matter
For nearly a century, dark matter has been one of the greatest mysteries in all of science. We know it exists as it makes up an estimated 85% of the universe’s total mass and acts as invisible gravitational scaffolding holding galaxies together, but no one has ever directly observed it. Until now, possibly. Professor Tomonori […]