Scientists Just Restored Memory In Alzheimers Models By Blocking One Protein And The Implications Are Huge
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified a new potential strategy for fighting Alzheimer’s disease, finding that blocking a single protein called PTP1B restored memory and improved the brain’s ability to clear the toxic plaque buildup that drives the disease in mouse models. The protein PTP1B was first discovered by lead researcher Professor Nicholas […]
Manhattan Restaurant Owner Has Been Feeding And Sheltering Homeless People Every Week
On East 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, a Turkish restaurant owner named Ali Riza Dogan has been doing something quietly extraordinary for years: every Wednesday night at eight o’clock, regardless of weather, he heads to Chinatown to personally serve warm meals of lamb, chicken, and Mediterranean sides to people experiencing homelessness, and on cold nights […]
Pizza Huts 40-Year-Old Reading Program Is Back This Summer And Kids Can Earn Free Pizza
Pizza Hut’s beloved Book It program, which has been rewarding kids with free pizza for reading since 1984, is returning for summer with a new name and a new app just in time for the months when children are most at risk of losing their reading progress. The program, called Book It Summer of Stories, […]
This Chef Buttered 10 Slices Of Bread In 16 Seconds, A New World Record
Zeinab Bance is a chef and mother of three from Côte d’Ivoire, which means she knows her way around a kitchen. But on March 17, she took a task most people do on autopilot every morning and turned it into something extraordinary: she buttered 10 slices of bread in just 16.65 seconds, shattering the previous […]
A Canadian Tow Truck Driver Found A Moose Trapped In Ice And Said All His Other Jobs Could Wait
Clint Gottinger, a tow truck operator in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, was heading out to two jobs last Saturday evening when he spotted a yearling moose at a frozen junction near his home, exhausted and trapped in the ice, and made a decision that has since made him briefly famous across Canada: everybody else had to wait. […]
Cooking One Home Meal A Week Could Cut Your Dementia Risk By 30 Percent And For New Cooks Its Even More
A new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has found that older adults who prepare a home-cooked meal from scratch at least once a week have a significantly lower risk of developing dementia, with the protective effect growing even stronger for people who are just learning to cook. Researchers drew on […]
Hotel Staff Worked Through The Night To Donate 2600 Unserved Dinners To Shelters
When a gunman fired shots in the lobby of the Washington Hilton on April 25th and abruptly ended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner before the main course could be served, roughly 2,600 plates of steak and lobster were left sitting untouched in the kitchen. The hotel staff, who worked through the night under what the […]
This Wouldn’t Have Happened To Leonardo DiCaprio, The Story Of The Lost Oscar
It started as a bureaucratic nightmare and ended as one of the most absurd comeback stories of the week. Pavel Talankin, the Russian-born director who won Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards for Mr Nobody Against Putin, was stopped at New York’s JFK Airport on Wednesday when TSA agents refused to let him […]
The Internet Just Voted On The Funniest Wildlife Photo Of The Year And The Winner Is Perfect
The internet has voted, and the winner of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards’ Sterna People’s Choice Award is a deeply relatable photograph of a gannet on a very bad hair day. UK photographer Alison Tuck captured the winning shot on a breezy afternoon at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire during nesting season, when a gust of […]
Scientists Just Found The Fossilized Remains Of A Snake That May Have Been Up To 50 Feet Long
Paleontologists working in India have announced the discovery of one of the largest snakes ever to have lived on Earth, a prehistoric giant called Vasuki indicus that slithered across what is now the state of Gujarat roughly 47 million years ago and is estimated to have reached a staggering length of between 36 and 49 […]