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Mounjaro Beats Ozempic
in Head-to-Head Study

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May 12, 2025 5:04 PM CDT

Mounjaro Beats Ozempic in Head-to-Head Study

Study suggests tirzepatide users lose more weight than semaglutide users

(Newser) - Mounjaro wins bragging rights over Ozempic in a new weight-loss study—though it's one that was funded by the maker of Mounjaro. Researchers found that those taking tirzepatide, marketed as Mounjaro and Zepbound, lost about 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks, according to the study published...

Chimps Drum With Distinct Rhythms to Communicate

Who's Got Rhythm?
The Chimps

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May 9, 2025 2:08 PM CDT

Who's Got Rhythm? The Chimps

Researchers find each chimp has a unique drumming style they use to communicate

(Newser) - Chimps and humans appear to share a common trait—the ability to drum. Researchers analyzed 371 instances of chimpanzees hitting tree trunks and found the primates keep a regular rhythm, suggesting a musical ability that predates humans, reports the AP . "Our ability to produce rhythm, and to use...

99.999% of the Deep Sea
Remains Unexplored

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May 8, 2025 10:25 AM CDT

99.999% of the Deep Sea Remains Unexplored

Researchers describe bias in geographic coverage, operator representation

(Newser) - Across Earth's deep oceans, explorers have taken a look at an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, which isn't saying much. That works out to about 0.001% of the deep sea, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances . In other words, 99.999% of...

In Spots With Thriving Bird Habitats, an Alarming Decline

Birds Give Us
Another Sign of
Our 'Slow-Moving
Extinction Crisis'

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May 2, 2025 7:00 AM CDT

Birds Give Us Another Sign of Our 'Slow-Moving Extinction Crisis'

Research finds 75% of bird species in North America are seeing a population decline

(Newser) - North America has a bird problem—not too many, but perhaps too few in the not-so-distant future. New research published Thursday in the journal Science reveals that 75% of the continent's bird species are on a downward spiral, seeing their populations decline between 2007 and 2021. The Washington Post...

Women More Likely to Report Cancer-Related Fatigue, Depression

After Cancer, Women More
Likely to Report This Than Men

Apr 29, 2025 3:13 PM CDT

After Cancer, Women More Likely to Report This Than Men

Female patients appear to have more cancer-related depression, fatigue than male counterparts

(Newser) - Women who struggle to get back to their old selves after cancer aren't alone. Female cancer survivors are significantly more likely than male counterparts to suffer fatigue and depression, according to new research. Dr. Simo Du, a resident physician at New York City's Jacobi Medical Center, first noticed...

Massive Icebergs Once
Floated Around the UK

NEW STUDY

Apr 24, 2025 1:17 PM CDT

Massive Icebergs Once Floated Around the UK

Evidence could prove useful in understanding how ice sheets respond to climate change

(Newser) - Deep tracks in the floor of the North Sea are hugely exciting to scientists in the UK, who say the grooves not only confirm that an ice sheet once covered Britain and Ireland, but also that it calved icebergs as large as cities. As the giant tabular icebergs with wide,...

Pot's Potential
Against Cancer Isn't
Just Fighting Symptoms

Pot's Potential Against Cancer Isn't Just Fighting Symptoms

New meta-analysis finds medical cannabis helps fight both symptoms and cancer cells themselves

(Newser) - Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for some time, providing relief from pain, insomnia, anxiety, and nausea. Now, scientists say that pot shows promise in fighting the big "C" itself. The Guardian reports on the largest-ever study on using medical marijuana to treat cancer, with "overwhelming scientific...

Warm Weather Gives Pack Rats
a Leg Up on Rattlesnakes

NEW STUDY

Apr 18, 2025 8:45 AM CDT

Warm Weather Gives Pack Rats a Leg Up on Rattlesnakes

Warm temps, diet seem to influence how protected desert wood rats are against snake toxins

(Newser) - The secret to surviving a rattlesnake bite may lie not just in genetics, but in the temperature outside: New research reveals that weather and diet can shape how well desert wood rats, a form of pack rat, resist deadly venom. In a new study published Wednesday in Biology Letters...

Ancient Jawbone That Sat in
Antiques Shop Is 'Scarce Find'

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Apr 11, 2025 10:31 AM CDT

Ancient Jawbone That Sat in Antiques Shop Is 'Scarce Find'

Scientists say fossil found in Taiwan belonged to enigmatic human ancestors known as Denisovans

(Newser) - An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. "Denisovan fossils are very scarce," with...

Male Fruit Flies Get Tipsy
and the Ladies Come Running

NEW STUDY

Apr 7, 2025 2:00 PM CDT

Male Fruit Flies Get Tipsy and the Ladies Come Running

New research finds that alcohol causes males of the species to produce, emit more pheromones

(Newser) - Fruit flies—they're just like us. Meaning, booze seems to boost sexytime for the pesky insect that hovers around fermented drinks and alcohol-producing rotting fruit, but perhaps not for the most obvious reason. According to new research published last week in the Science Advances journal, female members of the...

Mystery of How Iguanas
Got to Fiji May Be Solved

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Mar 23, 2025 1:30 PM CDT

Mystery of How Iguanas Got to Fiji May Be Solved

Research suggests lizards floated to remote islands from North America on a vegetation raft

(Newser) - Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. They thought maybe they'd scurried there through Asia or Australia before volcanic activity pushed Fiji far away. But new research published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

We Underestimated
the Megalodon

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Mar 11, 2025 1:16 PM CDT

We Underestimated the Megalodon

Extinct shark could've been as long as 2 school buses, as heavy as a blue whale

(Newser) - It hasn't been easy forming a picture of the megalodon , a massive shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, because fossil finds include only teeth and vertebrae . But researchers in 28 countries now believe they have a good idea of what the shark looked like after comparing...

Woman's Unwelcome Souvenir
From Trip: a Brain Worm

Woman's Unwelcome Souvenir From Trip: a Brain Worm

Parasite contracted in Hawaii or Southeast Asia caused patient's legs to feel like they were burning

(Newser) - A woman on a whirlwind three-week junket to Hawaii, Japan, and Thailand returned home with an unwanted memento: a parasite that embedded itself in her brain and made her legs feel like they were burning. That odd sensation started out in the New England 30-year-old's feet after she got...

Adding Periods to Texts
Changes. Their. Intensity.

NEW STUDY

Feb 20, 2025 5:35 PM CST

Adding Periods to Texts Changes. Their. Intensity.

Researchers say periods and text breaks may be 'equivalent to a dramatic pause'

(Newser) - We all likely spend a fair amount of time analyzing text messages. It's not always easy to gauge a sender's feelings from written words, as facial expressions and patterns of rhythm and sound often used to shape meaning in spoken conversations are absent. But "textisms"—a...

Scientists Pinpoint Gene
Tied to Human Language

NEW STUDY

Feb 18, 2025 10:52 AM CST

Scientists Pinpoint Gene Tied to Human Language

Protein variant found only in humans may have helped us learn to communicate the way we do

(Newser) - Why did humans start speaking? A new study links one gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way—and what scientists learn may someday help people with speech problems. Speech over the centuries...

Ozempic, Wegovy Have
'Eye-Opening' Effects on Health

Ozempic, Wegovy Have 'Eye-Opening' Effects on Health

Scientists find GLP-1 drugs lower risk for dozens of other conditions—but there are caveats

(Newser) - Once we crossed the Rubicon to use diabetes drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro for weight loss, it seemed inevitable that scientists would investigate what else these apparent wonder drugs might tackle. Now, the first study to look at how the medications affect overall health is done, and it's...

With Mifepristone Under
Attack, a New Possible Option

Jan 24, 2025 8:29 AM CST

With Mifepristone Under Attack, a New Possible Option

Study: Ulipristal acetate found in emergency contraception pill may be viable abortion alternative

(Newser) - A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher dose as an abortion drug, providing a possible alternative to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in the most common type of abortion in the United States. Mifepristone has been under attack...

Coffee May Keep
a Particular Cancer at Bay

NEW STUDY

Jan 23, 2025 9:45 AM CST

Coffee May Keep a Particular Cancer at Bay

And it may not be the caffeine that lowers risk of head and neck cancer, scientists say

(Newser) - We already know that coffee may be able to help mitigate couch-potato lifestyles , boost longevity , and reduce your risk for a slew of conditions, including diabetes and heart disease. Add two more to that latter list, according to research published in the journal Cancer : Scientists have found that drinking four-plus...

Ancient Celtic Society
Revolved Around Women

NEW STUDY

Jan 16, 2025 11:39 AM CST

Ancient Celtic Society Revolved Around Women

Men had to depend on their wives (and wives' families) in pre-Roman Britain

(Newser) - For millennia leading up to 800BC, communities in Britain were centered around male bloodlines, meaning that upon marriage, women left their homes to join the communities of their husbands. But that appears to have changed with the dawning of the Iron Age. New research, based in part on a Celtic...

Cancer Hitting Women,
Young People More Often

NEW STUDY

Jan 16, 2025 11:17 AM CST

Cancer Hitting Women, Young People More Often

New stats document a 'really shocking' shift, says one doctor

(Newser) - Historically, men have had a higher overall rate of cancer than women. But times are changing. While 1.6 men were diagnosed with cancer for each woman in 1992, that number fell to 1.1 in 2021. And middle-aged women now have a higher risk of cancer than men of...