A smiley face can hurt your credibility at work, study finds
A cheerful emoji can brighten a group chat. In a workplace message, it may do something else entirely.…
Astronomers discovered the most primitive star ever
A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way is providing astronomers with an incredibly…
OICR funds four Ontario teams to develop next-generation cancer therapies
Better cancer care depends on better treatment options. That’s why the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is…
People don’t overeat because food just tastes so good
“Betcha can’t eat just one!” This slogan for Lay’s potato chips seemed endearing in mid-20th-century America, before the…
Fat-producing enzyme identified as key driver of damage in Parkinson’s disease
A fat-producing enzyme in brain cells may play a key role in driving damage in Parkinson’s disease and…
A mother’s 20-year quest fuels a startling Duchenne breakthrough
A year after the worst day of her life, Debra Miller received a voicemail she couldn’t quite make…
Cassini-Huygens mission finds lopsided shift in Saturn’s magnetic bubble
Saturn’s magnetic shield does not sit where many scientists would expect. After combing through years of data from…
Genetic overlap links psychiatric disorders with many physical ailments
For centuries, mental illness and physical disease have been viewed as two distinct categories, each with its own…
Clusterin inhibition offers new hope for treating cervical gastric-type adenocarcinoma
Gastric-type adenocarcinoma (GAS) is one of the most aggressive non-human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cervical adenocarcinomas and remains especially difficult…
AI System Turns Regular Smartwatches Into Hand-Tracking Devices
Soon, your smartwatch could do much more than track your steps or display messages. Researchers at Cornell and…
5 Mysteries That the Artemis Missions to the Moon Could Finally Solve
For half a century humans thought they understood the moon: a static, airless, waterless landscape without many mysteries…
Childhood trauma inspires research into brain repair and recovery
What began as a child’s encounter with trauma has grown into a research programme committed to understanding recovery.…