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No one really knows the cause of migraine, but a number of studies have begun to piece together the mechanisms behind these headaches from hell. There's evidence that short strings of amino acids called calcitonin gene-related peptides (CGRP) could be the evil puppeteers behind painful migraine attacks, with treatments targeting CGRP already on the market. There are also signs that malfunctioning fluid drainage systems in the brain might sometimes involved.

Tiny Blockages in The Brain's Plumbing Could Be Causing Migraines

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Of all the places you can get stung by a bee, the eyeball has to be one of the most unfortunate spots. A rare case study from Wills Eye Hospital in the US state of Philadelphia details the horrifying story of a 55-year-old man who got a barbed bee stinger stuck in his right eye.

Horrific Bee Sting Leaves Barbed Stinger Hiding in a Man's Eyeball


Daedalus could have learned a thing or two from a team of physicists in the UK and Switzerland.
Taking principles from fractal geometry and the strategic game of chess, they have created what they say is the most fiendishly difficult maze ever devised.



					
			

Led by physicist Felix Flicker of the University of Bristol in the UK, the group has generated routes called Hamiltonian cycles in patterns known as Ammann-Beenker tilings, producing complex fractal mazes that, they say, describe an exotic form of matter known as quasicrystals.
And it was all inspired by the movement of a Knight around a chess board.
"When we looked...

Physicists Have Created The World's Most Fiendishly Difficult Maze


As extreme storms, floods, fires, droughts, cold snaps, and heat waves hit us harder and more often than ever, more than half of our planet is predicted to shift into new climate zones by the end of the century.



					
			

A new interactive map, The Future Urban Climates, allows you to explore how your home's climate will be impacted.
Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on  Climate Change (IPCC), University of Maryland spatial ecologist Matthew Fitzpatrick matches 40,581 places around the globe to nearby locations currently experiencing their future predicted climate in 2080.
For example, a trip to northern Mississippi today would allow...

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Little more than a handful of corroded bronze wheels and heavily encrusted gears now remains of the ancient artifact called the Antikythera mechanism, leaving archaeologists to speculate over its functionality and purpose. After decades of study, it's largely agreed that the millennia-old device was something of an analog computer capable...

Gravitational Wave Research Reveals Missing Details on The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism


A new study of animal behavior shows that using a 'good enough' strategy to complete a task could have advantages over striving for perfection.
Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US wanted to challenge traditional methods of animal research, where diverse behaviors in activities such as mating, hunting, or evading predators are typically compared to some optimized method.



					
			

Using theoretical algorithms and models, the researchers took apart a simple and widely used foraging task – where animals (such as mice) get to choose between various options to get a reward – to come up with a vast number of...

Good News! Turns Out You Don't Need to Be Perfect to Get The Job Done

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Emily Standley Allard

Marriage is a significant life decision that requires extreme commitment, understanding, devotion and a heck of a lot of compromise. While many people dream of a lifelong partnership, others find the concept of marriage challenging. Astrology offers insights into personality traits and behaviors, suggesting that certain zodiac signs might face more difficulties in maintaining a traditional marital relationship. This article explores the five zodiac signs that are often considered less suited for marriage due to their unique characteristics and tendencies when it comes to lifelong commitment.

The 5 Zodiac Signs Not Meant for Matrimony


A quick scan of your face could one day reveal how well you are aging and whether you are at risk of developing certain diseases.
Scientists in China have found that a comparison of the heat coming off a person's nose, cheeks, and eye area could be an "ideal monitoring and screening tool for healthy aging".



					
			

Trained using facial temperature data from 2,811 Chinese participants between the ages of 21 and 88, their  artificial intelligence program identified several facial thermal patterns that could hint at a person's 'biological clock'.
For instance, the temperature of an individual's nose was found to decrease with...

Your Face's Heat Patterns Could Reveal Vital Clues About Your Health


Last year an ant species was caught using antibiotics – now, another has been observed performing amputations.
Researchers have just confirmed with experiments that this surgery and the other treatments ants provide each other do indeed save ant lives.



					
			

While we have known for a few years now that ants treat each other's wounds, we're only just learning how astonishingly complex and precise ant medical care can be.
"Ants are able to diagnose a wound, see if it's infected or sterile, and treat it accordingly over long periods of time by other individuals," explains behavioral ecologist Erik Frank from the University of Würzburg...

These Ants Perform Life-Saving Operations on Injured Nestmates, Similar to Humans


Every now and again, serendipity gives us a unique window into times long past.
An explosive volcanic eruption that took place in prehistory is one of them. As the ash from a pyroclastic flow during the Cambrian age was dumped on a shallow marine environment, its population of ancient arthropods called trilobites were preserved almost instantly – including any soft tissues that are normally degraded or destroyed during other fossilization processes.



					
			

Now, hundreds of millions of years later, those unfortunate animals have given us an unprecedented record of their three-dimensional anatomy, along with any smaller creatures that happened to be clinging to...

Never-Before-Seen Trilobite Anatomy Preserved by Pompeii-Like Ash in Morocco


For some planets, the meteorite bombardment just never stops.
New analysis of data collected by a seismometer on  Mars has revealed that space rocks slam into the red planet far more frequently than we ever suspected.



					
			

In fact, it seems Mars is copping an absolute thrashing. Based on the number of nearby impact-related tremors detected by the Mars InSight lander during its tenure, a team of scientists has estimated that Mars experiences almost daily impacts from rocks the size of a basketball smashing into its surface.
"This rate was about five times higher than the number estimated from orbital imagery alone," says...

Quakes on Mars Reveal Red Planet Is Constantly Bombarded by Meteorites

We finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early Universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that flared to life, clearing the fog of murky hydrogen that filled intergalactic space. A new paper about the research was published in February.

We Finally Know What Turned on The Lights at The Dawn of Time


Once upon a time, our world was home to many giants.
Actually, it wasn't so long ago. Once the  dinosaurs had had their day, our planet was home to a whole new range of giant animals, from sloths that towered over humans, to wooly mammoths, to huge wombats and kangaroos, to the magnificent giga-goose.



					
			

Between around 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, nearly 200 of the world's largest animal species disappeared forever, leaving nothing but their humongous bones (and burrows). It's unclear what ultimately claimed these magnificent creatures.
During the time frame in which the megafauna disappeared, the world warmed and an ice...

Humans to Blame For Megafauna Extinctions, New Study Suggests

Hotdogs are iconic elements of American food culture, and while they bring joy to many, emerging evidence suggests processed meats are also linked to several of the nation's leading diseases. According to recent estimates, the average American should take extra care to limit their intake of processed meat, like bacon,...

Eating 30% Less of One Type of Meat Could Prevent Future Type 2 Diabetes

Without easy access to freshwater lakes, streams, and dams, roughly one out of every four humans depends on reservoirs beneath Earth's surface for survival. By the end of the century, tens to hundreds of millions could be deprived of even this tenuous supply of moisture as rising temperatures risk turning shallow groundwater supplies into toxic sumps.

Warming Groundwater Could Be Undrinkable For Half a Billion People by 2100

The Milky Way is not alone in its little corner of the Universe. Tiny, faint dwarf galaxies, many with as few as a thousand stars, swoop around our cosmic neighborhood on long graceful circuits. It's unclear exactly how many there are, but there should be a lot more than the 60 or so we've found to date.

Missing Dwarf Galaxies Found Near The Milky Way in The Worst Place


Like a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic plot, rising temperatures are causing fungi to mutate in ways that not only make them hyper-infectious but drug-resistant, too.
This is deeply concerning as our world warms, Nanjing Medical University researcher Jingjing Huang and colleagues warn.



					
			

"The danger and importance of new fungal pathogens is believed to be seriously underestimated," they write in their new paper.
"Temperature-dependent mutagenesis can enable the development of pan-drug resistance and hypervirulence in fungi, and support the idea that global warming can promote the evolution of new fungal pathogens."
Fungal infections already cause around 3.75 million deaths annually, despite most species preferring much lower temperatures...

Fungal Pathogens Are Mutating Dangerously as The World Gets Hotter

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in brand medicines like Ozempic and Wegovy, could raise the risk of a relatively rare eye disease that is a leading cause of vision loss, according to a retrospective study. The research was led by scientists at Harvard University, and it was driven by anecdotal reports...

Ozempic-Like Drugs 'Tentatively' Linked With Sudden Vision Loss Risk

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Your Fingernails Have Unexpectedly Precise Sensory Capabilities

Our fingernails know us so well that they can sometimes even tell us about our health. But there's a surprising amount we don't know about them,...

Your Fingernails Have Unexpectedly Precise Sensory Capabilities

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