Hypothesis

World-wide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975, according to the World Health Organization. Numerous causes of obesity have been hypothesized including increased dietary fat, carbohydrate or ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption,…

A new study from a team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that signs of common infections in a sample of middle-aged and older adults were associated with poorer performance on a test of global…

10.48AM. I am sitting in a nice, softly-lit cove somewhere in the middle of the 70,000 sq ft Eslite Spectrum at The Starhill. (I later find out this area is called the Arched City, distinguishable by a 60-metre-long wall of red bricks and…

New findings from investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, contradict previous notions about sugar's role in the onset of diabetic cataracts. Using an animal model that…

A new theory suggests irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the most common gastrointestinal disorder, may be caused by gravity. Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai and author of the hypothesis,…

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin. The details on the events that occur during autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta-cells have been studied extensively yet the mystery…

The Fermi paradox states that if alien life exists, we should be able to see signs of their existence, because they would be so technologically advanced they could colonize the galaxy without much effort. Since we don't see…

The brain is a complex network containing billions of neurons. Each of these neurons communicates simultaneously with thousands of others via their synapses (links), and collects incoming signals through several extremely long, branched…

For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued by humans' love of alcohol. In 2014, he wrote a book proposing that our attraction to booze arose millions of years ago, when our ape and monkey ancestors discovered that…

Early humans had to move around often to hunt for food, the thinking goes, and those who moved the most and found the most food were likeliest to survive. Over eons, this process led to the selection of genes that were optimised by…