Relationships Matter More Than Wealth for Healthy Aging
80 years. 724 people. One finding. The quality of your relationships predicts your health in old age more than wealth, class, or genetics. https://t.co/RhHGOhY3S8
Extending Peakspan Crucial for Aging Economy Growth
👉 “humans now spend the majority of their adult lives in a "healthy but declined" state, characterized by a significant "functional gap." 👉 We argue that extending Peakspan and developing strategies to restore function in post-peak individuals is the functional manifestation...
Under
Climate folks: Who are the experts on how undersea cable data is used to measure North Atlantic salinity and currents, and detect potential AMOC weakening?
Haptic Exoskeletons Boost Violin Duo Coordination Over Visual Cues
A new Science #Robotics study demonstrates that #haptic feedback from wearable upper body #exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. https://t.co/iLG2uygK1v https://t.co/ZWKc88BaUy
Dog Owners Who Exercise Cut Dementia Risk 63%
You a cat or dog person? Own a dog + exercise: 63% lower dementia risk. Own a dog + don't exercise: 0% benefit. Own a cat: 0% benefit. https://t.co/sHDhqcfYvB
New ENSO Model Raises 2026 Temperature
I've updated the Climate Dashboard to use the new 11-model ENSO multi-model mean to help predict 2026 temperatures. It caused the 2026 estimate to jump from 1.45C to 1.51C, reflecting the much higher likelihood of a strong El Nino developing: https://t.co/Dx8ydDOXyC...
Does Quantum Teleportation Duplicate Your Identity?
Are you destroyed by teleportation? If your quantum information over here is copied and posted over there into another set of particles, is it still you? https://t.co/GTCLhiF2rD
High‑fat Diet Pushes Gut Bacteria to Brain via Vagus
How to get bacteria to move from the gut into the brain? —eat a high-fat diet —vagus nerve is the conduit —in the mouse model https://t.co/BI6HIbVgPl
Cervical Mucus Health, Not Lubricants, Drives Conception
Sperm have to survive a brutal journey. The vagina is naturally acidic (pH around 4) to protect against infection. That same acidity kills sperm. Around ovulation, your cervical mucus is supposed to shift. It becomes clear, stretchy, and more alkaline, creating a...
New Cancer Interception Strategy Regresses Pancreatic Precancers
🆕 @ScienceMagazine An exciting new approach vs pancreatic cancer: "cancer interception" Considered ubiquitous, the pancreas in healthy adults has hundreds of PanINs of microscopic premalignant cancer that can be regressed in the experimental model https://t.co/erVtthSMjS https://t.co/2xHIYdIPrx
Heritability Misunderstood: Communicating Genetics Clearly Matters
A common misunderstanding about genetics https://t.co/iwIbf7gUfo New Note Self by @ProfAMGregory for Psyche. People’s misunderstanding of terms like ‘heritability’ shows how important it is to communicate science carefully https://t.co/eFg2BP5DXs
Strong 2016‑level El Niño Expected, Forecasts Show
El Niño is coming, and it is shaping up to be a big one. Over at The Climate Brink I've put together a compilation of the latest forecasts by different modeling groups. They suggest that we might see an event...
Low‑dose Rapamycin Eases Fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS
Low-dose rapamycin alleviates clinical symptoms of fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS patients via improvement of autophagy: a pilot study Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, multisystem disorder characterized by profound fatigue… 👉 “Low-dose rapamycin effectively reduced PEM and other key...
Firefly Alpha Launch Successful, Satellite Placed in Precise Orbit
The Firefly Alpha launch appears to have been fully successful. The LM-400 test satellite is being tracked in a 401 x 405 km x 123.0 deg orbit, and the Alpha second stage made a perigee lowering burn at about...
AI Becomes Partner in Uncovering New Physical Theories
AI is starting to expand the frontier of theoretical physics. Researchers are now using AI not just as a computational tool, but as something closer to a collaborator helping uncover patterns, generate hypotheses and explore mathematical landscapes that were previously impossible...
Fetal Urine Fuels Amniotic Fluid, Shaping Lung Development
When you're pregnant, your baby is floating in its own pee. Sort of. By the third trimester, the majority of amniotic fluid comes from fetal urine. The baby swallows it, their kidneys filter it, and they pee it back out....
Relativity Lets You Jump Ahead, Not Live Longer
A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality Even relativity, with all the power of time dilation, won't increase the span of your lived life. But it can take you far into the future, and even to the ends...
Microbes in Tumors: Unraveling a Controversial Role
What is the significance of microbes in tumors, a field mired in controversy? https://t.co/D5sHkLLsrT https://t.co/ntGLlke4iC
U.S. Forecasts 80% Chance of Late‑2026 El Niño
El Nino is coming in 2026. U.S. forecasters see El Nino arriving mid-year, placing 80%+ odds that it will be in place at the end of 2026. No other March forecast back to at least 2002 showed this strong of chances...
NASA Captures Sun’s Eerie “Sound” From Space
NASA recorded “the sound” of the Sun in space and it’s actually freaky… #space #astronomy #nasa #physics #astrokobi
Unprecedented Ridge Drives Record Heat, Ending Ski Season
I guess the earth didn’t stop warming in the last 18 months. Sierra ski season over?
Psychedelics Boost Exercise Habits and Stress Resilience
psychedelics appear to facilitate the adoption or maintenance of physical activity habits, increase psychological flexibility, emotional resilience to acute stress, exercise and psychedelics have numerous potential complementary mechanisms https://t.co/gl4YK8bqaE
Probiotics: Benefits Questioned, Potential Explored
We know the microbiome plays an important role in health. Probiotics may play a role in the microbiome, but are they really as positive as they seem? This blog explores the potential of probiotics. Read now: https://t.co/EEXKgILfH7 https://t.co/5lwReH5Q2a
RFK Jr Promotes Unproven Peptides, BPC‑157 Lacks Solid Data
RFK Jr is trying to get 14 peptides, without data on safety or efficacy, licensed and approved by FDA. His favorite is BPC-157. "Only three small human studies of BPC-157 exist, for instance, the largest of which is a telephone...
Top Resources for TF Binding, Enhancers, Histone Marks
8 Resources to study Transcription factor binding, enhancers and histone modification distribution 1. ENCODE https://t.co/N5hScyoAoP
Dell and DOE Turn AI Hype Into Mission Advantage
Speaking at and attending @DellTech Symposium in Washington DC. The day kicked off with @MichaelDell, Dario Gil @ScienceUnderSec and Dell Federal VP @Surid. They’re framing how Dell and the U.S. Department of Energy aim to use AI, high‑performance computing, and...
Tropic Secures $105M to Mass‑produce Non‑browning Bananas
Tropic, a British gene-editing startup, has raised $105 million in new financing to expand production of bananas that don’t brown https://t.co/rHHAMO6mST
Western Cape Hits March Heat Record, Fuels Drought Risk
Cape Town and other areas of South Africa’s Western Cape Province saw record temperatures for March as a heat wave sears a region that’s vulnerable to both drought and wildfires https://t.co/C08EOcQMjw
El Niño Likely by September, Raising Temps and Risking Crops
US forecasters say an El Niño is favored to emerge in the Pacific Ocean by September, threatening to drive global temperatures higher and disrupt crops in the months ahead https://t.co/dk8PhPCFMQ
Aging Is Primarily Loss of Epigenetic Information
When Andrew Huberman asked about the root cause of aging, Dr. David Sinclair gave a surprisingly simple answer: "Aging is a loss of information in the same way you try to copy a cassette tape, or even if you send information...
Defining a Lunar Base: Landers, Proximity, Night Survival
This does get to the question of what is a “lunar base”. Is one CLPS lander the first element of a lunar base? Two, near each other? Do they have to survive the lunar night??
Quantum AI May Evolve Into Unknowable Consciousness
Quintelligence: Quantum AI could become an unknowable consciousness...Paul Davies, Natalia Ares, and Yours Truly https://t.co/I0VHY4bx7B
War Deepens Iran's Water Crisis Amid Climate Change
War is pushing Iran deeper into a water crisis, compounding the effects of climate change and decades of mismanagement by authorities https://t.co/810aKlEkkp
AI Accelerates Fundamental Science Across All Industries
AI is dramatically accelerating core scientific discovery outside the tech industry. From 3D mesh creation to optimizing algorithms like AlphaDev and improving weather prediction, AI is boosting efficiency and innovation in fundamental science. #AI #Science #Innovation https://t.co/6AkXWqW8ds
Oxytocin Loss Accelerates Epigenetic Aging and Inflammation
Oxytocin, Epigenetic Aging, and the Social Regulation of Health: A Lifecourse Perspective on the Maejima et al. Findings "The elegant work by Maejima et al. recently published in Aging Cell reveals a previously unrecognized mechanism linking age-related oxytocin (OXT) decline to epigenetic remodeling,...
Novelist Abi Daré: Climate Change Shaped Nigerian Girls' Story
Bestselling novelist and winner of the Climate Fiction Prize Abi Daré joins Bloomberg Green's Zero podcast to discuss why she couldn’t ignore climate change as she told the story of girls in Nigeria https://t.co/gyYuRstCge
Glymphatic Dysfunction Connects Vascular Disease to Alzheimer Biomarkers
Glymphatic dysfunction links vascular pathology to Alzheimer’s biomarkers and cognitive decline "These findings highlight glymphatic dysfunction as a key mechanism linking vascular pathology with tau, inflammation and neurodegeneration, independent of Aβ uptakes." 🧠 https://t.co/YUCjeay0kr
Probiotic L. Paracasei DG I1572 Combats Vascular Inflammaging
Gut Microbiota Manipulation by Probiotic Lacticaseibacillus paracasei DG I1572 as New Therapeutical Strategy to Counteract Vascular Inflammaging https://t.co/91dumlTNgU https://t.co/tkL0m8P6nd
New Tissue Models Accelerate Liver Disease Drug Development
New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease by Anne Trafton @MIT Learn more: https://t.co/hkeRZ0W47B #HealthTech #EmergingTech #TechForGood #Innovation https://t.co/LNvft8iX9M
Birds Dream: Evolution Crafted REM for Sleep Practice
What birds dream about and how evolution invented REM in the avian brain so we may practice the possible in our sleep https://t.co/N8KS6IV92p
New Coating Keeps Solar Panels Clean without Losing Efficiency
Researchers develop dirt-repelling solar panel coating that doesn’t affect light absorption #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/BJgSBTxln9
Bubeck's 2023 AGI Sparks Paper Still Holds Up
The 2023 “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” paper by Sébastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck is aging very well.
Rocket Factory
Ok. Since you asked so nicely, here’s a few from the NG factory. Can’t beat a rocket factory… And the folks taking me around are awesome. Anything else? https://t.co/XW4SA1PBpD
Phase 2 Trial Compares Dara‑Bor
EAA241 - Ph 2 RCT Dara-Bor-Dex vs Cy-Bor-Dex in the treatment of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma with Light Chain Cast Nephropathy (LCCN) [Study activated 8/11/25] @keruakous https://t.co/1NgvVZ3fTA #NCT07085728 #mmsm @eaonc https://t.co/IvK3UNeem9
Daratumumab Boosts Revlimid Efficacy in Smoldering Myeloma
#EAonc EAA173 - Daratumumab to Enhance Therapeutic Effectiveness of Revlimid in Smoldering Myeloma (DETER-SMM) - PI: @nsc_natalie https://t.co/VtBMJUjI5X Activated: Apr 30, 2019 #mmsm @eaonc #NCT03937635 @VincentRK @mweissmdphd https://t.co/ikQKjHjscU
Phase 3 Trial Tests
.@SWOG S2213 Ph3 RCT Dara-VC Induction Followed by ASCT or Dara-VCD Consolidation & Daratumumab Maintenance in Pts w/ Newly Diagnosed AL Amyloidosis [Activated: 12/1/23] https://t.co/OizUfJCc2c #mmsm #bmtsm https://t.co/FoT3i0xGcL
Chromosomal Abnormalities Impact Multiple Myeloma Survival Differently by Population
Population differences in the associations between chromosomal abnormalities and overall survival of multiple myeloma [Jan 31, 2025] Bei Wang et al. @Bloodneoplasia https://t.co/IFPgCwpGo6 #mmsm #PrecisionMedicine #cancerdisparities https://t.co/1eBp98ZNOg
Mapping Genomic Alterations in Multiple Myeloma Precursors
Genomic landscape of multiple myeloma and its precursor conditions [May 21, 2025] Jean-Baptiste Alberge et al. @IrenemGhobrial @NatureGenet https://t.co/DDWGRrpI4Y #mmsm #PrecisionMedicine #cagenome https://t.co/LY1MzFXSBN
Multiple Myeloma Evades GPRC5D T‑Cell Engagers via Multim
Multimodal antigenic escape to GPRC5D-targeted T cell engagers in multiple myeloma [Jan 15, 2026] @hollyleeYJ et al. @NBahlis @NatureMedicine https://t.co/mz393mPMAq #mmsm #PrecisionMedicine #tcellrx THREAD: https://t.co/lNX9b7LsnR HT @AuclairDan https://t.co/2qih7LwP1c
Diamonds' Hidden Chemistry Revealed on National Proposal Day
It's NationalProposalDay 💍 There's more to diamonds than meets the eye; this graphic highlights the hidden chemistry: https://www.compoundchem.com/2015/12/15/diamonds/