According to a nationwide birth cohort study published in the European Journal of Nutrition, higher maternal fish intake before pregnancy links to a lower risk of early-onset hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, while consuming fish during pregnancy associates with a reduced risk of late-onset cases among first-time mothers. Researchers tracking dietary patterns across more than 86,000 … Read more
Marine researchers capturing and tagging juvenile sand tiger sharks and great whites off New York’s Hamptons beaches are shedding new light on one of the world’s few confirmed great white shark nurseries, according to field reports from the Associated Press. Scientists working in the shallow coastal waters are tracking how warming ocean temperatures draw varied … Read more
Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) discovered a new genus and species of eyeless, colorless, and faintly electric blue cavefish, formally named Demogorgonichthys arcanus, in Bobcat Cave beneath the US Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, according to a university press release issued in July. The finding represents a rare discovery of an … Read more
A mountain lion wandering through a San Dimas neighborhood prompted the temporary closure of a local street before wildlife officials safely captured and removed the animal. The incident drew curious onlookers as authorities worked to secure the big cat. Incident Timeline and Law Enforcement Response The morning encounter began shortly after 8 a.m. when the … Read more
A 66-year-old Clark County man has been charged with federal crimes after law enforcement officers found a dead bald eagle with two shotgun pellets in its brain near Brush Prairie, Washington, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. Federal Charges Filed in Clark County Bald Eagle Shooting Benjamin G. Allen … Read more
Researchers from 12 countries have launched the World Diet Initiative, a global project designed to document and analyze heritage diets before they disappear. Published in Nature Medicine, the initiative aims to build a comprehensive atlas of traditional food systems to understand their biological impact on human health, metabolism, and the immune system. Mapping Global Dietary … Read more
New research from New York University mathematicians indicates that schools of fish and flocks of birds move through environments by mimicking the behavior of soft crystalline materials. According to the study published in Physical Review Fluids, individual animals act as “atoms” in a lattice, maintaining orderly, repeating patterns that allow for rapid, collective responses to … Read more
What Happens When You Swap Animal Proteins for Plant-Based Alternatives? A new Dutch study published in Nutrients reveals that shifting to plant-based diets can lower intake of critical nutrients like protein, vitamin B12, and calcium, particularly for older adults and adolescents. The research, conducted by a team including J. de Vries and colleagues, analyzed data … Read more
A plant-forward, low-protein diet supplemented with precise amounts of the amino acid methionine increases healthspan and reduces frailty in mice, according to a study published in Cell Metabolism by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC). Led by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, the team found that balancing specific … Read more
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have identified a specific circuit of neurons in the brainstem that acts as a control center for selective spatial attention. By silencing these neurons in mice, scientists observed that the animals became hyper-distractable, failing to filter out competing visual information. This discovery, published in Nature Communications, suggests that the biological … Read more