This Hormone Is Worse Than Cortisol for Belly Fat (Exercise Makes It Worse)
The video identifies fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF-21) as a key cellular stress hormone that, unlike cortisol, specifically governs mitochondrial stress responses and can drive insulin resistance and visceral belly fat when chronically elevated. Research cited (Nature, 2018) suggests persistent stress leads to FGF-21 resistance, blunting its protective effects and leaving only broad cortisol-driven stress, which can make exercise and dieting feel counterproductive. The presenter recommends short, high-intensity “pulsatile” workouts (15–20 minutes) with focused recovery, plus hydration, intermittent low-carb/fasting strategies, and mineral/electrolyte support to restore metabolic flexibility and avoid FGF-21 overactivation. Practical guidance emphasizes matching exercise volume to metabolic health to prevent inflammation, water retention, and worsening insulin resistance.
NASA Rover Snaps Selfie on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover marked day 1,800 on Mars by snapping a self‑portrait, the sixth such image since its 2021 landing. The selfie was assembled from 61 separate exposures taken in quick succession, capturing the rover at its farthest westward point to...
Elutia Inc. (NASDAQ: ELUT) Reducing Surgical Infection Risk & Scaling Commercial Adoption
Elutia Inc. (NASDAQ: ELUT) is positioning its antibiotic‑infused biomaterial platform to slash the roughly 20% post‑operative infection rate that plagues breast reconstruction after mastectomy. The company highlighted its upcoming NXT‑41X product, which integrates a sustained‑release antibiotic payload into standard surgical...
Here's How You Can Track Migrating Birds Using Radar
A new interactive website maps real‑time bird migration across the United States, forecasting movements for the coming days and allowing users to see how many birds pass over their specific location. The data comes from weather‑radar systems that emit radio waves...
Antarctica Was Nothing Like We Expected | NOVA | PBS
PBS NOVA’s "Antarctica Was Nothing Like We Expected" follows producers Caitlin Saks and Arlo Pérez as they trek to McMurdo Station, the continent’s premier research outpost. Over five days they cover roughly 12,000 miles across seven time zones, hauling hundreds...
Why Hasn't Evolution Eliminated Schizophrenia? - David Reich
David Reich explores a paradox: why schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have not been eradicated by natural selection despite millennia of strong negative pressure. He points to genomic studies that reveal a measurable decline in risk‑allele frequencies over the past 10,000...
Get Unready With NASA's Artemis II Astronauts
Artemis II crew members Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch run through a pre-sleep checklist in onboard audio, confirming sleeping bags, cabin equipment, hygiene bay access, air inlets and pressure relief, and that emergency gear is clear and accessible....
Hantavirus: Expert Explains What You NEED to Know
In a webinar, infectious-disease expert Dr. Bahuma Tatangi and MedPage Today’s Jeremy Faust discussed the unfolding Andes hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship, noting about 11 confirmed cases, three deaths, and numerous probable cases among passengers now repatriated to...
Scientists Found Unknown Humans in Our DNA
The video explains that Homo sapiens are genetic mosaics, carrying DNA from several extinct hominin groups, overturning the long‑held view of a single‑origin, species‑exclusive lineage. Genomic analyses show only 1.5‑7 % of our DNA is uniquely modern human, while ~2 % derives from...
Genesis Mission | Advancing Science Through AI
The Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission is a cross-sector platform uniting academia, industry and 70 national labs to accelerate science and technology by embedding artificial intelligence into research workflows. Fermilab is playing a key role by applying AI to the...
Processed Food Destroying Mental Health? | Educational Video | Biolayne
A recent epidemiological analysis by Sapien Labs examined data from more than 300,000 adults in the United Kingdom and United States, finding that high consumption of ultra‑processed foods is one of the strongest predictors of poor mental health. The study controlled...
Genetic Engineering - The Process and Applications (2 Minutes)
The video provides a concise overview of genetic engineering, breaking the process into four clear steps: isolating a target gene from source DNA, inserting it into a delivery vector, transferring the vector into a host organism, and harvesting the resulting...
Igniting Discovery: A Showcase of NASA-Funded Research - Planetary Radio
Igniting Discovery was a Capitol Hill showcase organized by the Planetary Society and a coalition of universities and scientific societies to put NASA-funded research on display for congressional staffers the day after the annual Day of Action. The event brought...
McCance Seminar Series: Rachel Bennett, PhD
Dr. Rachel Bennett presented evidence that tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease drives microvascular dysfunction, not just the reverse. In tau-overexpressing mice she observed increased vessel tortuosity, non-perfused capillaries, blood–brain barrier leakage, impaired functional hyperemia and upregulation of endothelial adhesion molecules...
Leveraging MGB’s Clinical and Scientific Discovery Engine to Benefit Communities Around the World
Dr. Jonathan Rosand, a neurology leader at Mass General Brigham and Harvard, outlined how an academic medical center’s clinical and scientific engine drives discovery across neurocritical care, stroke genetics, recovery and prevention. Framing his talk around six guiding questions, he...
Inside NIH’s “Shark Tank” For Health Tech | NIBIB Innovation & POCTRN
The National Institutes of Health hosted its Research and Innovation Technology Partnerships and Collaborations (RITPC) showcase, marking its eighth year and expanding to feature digital health and point‑of‑care technologies. A highlight of the event was the Emerging Technologies session, styled...
Your Mitochondria Are Begging You For This (More than Diet)
Speakers review emerging research suggesting near-infrared light boosts mitochondrial function through two mechanisms: canonical photon-driven effects on cytochrome c oxidase in the electron transport chain, and a less-recognized biophysical effect that restructures the ‘exclusion zone’ water around mitochondria, lowering viscosity...
Paxlovid for Covid?
Two recent randomized trials in the U.K. and Canada enrolling about 4,000 mostly vaccinated outpatients — age 50+ or younger with comorbidities — found Paxlovid did not lower the already low combined rate of hospitalization or death (around 1%). However,...
Immunic CEO on Q1 Highlights, New Appointments and Upcoming Milestones
Immunic’s CEO Daniel Witt used the Proactive interview to outline a busy first quarter, highlighting a slate of senior appointments, a $400 million oversubscribed financing round, and the company’s roadmap toward commercializing its lead candidate, VETA calcium. The new chief...
Success Pathways for Scaling Biofortified Crops
The Harvest Plus webinar titled “Success Pathways for Scaling Biofortified Crops” brought together regional experts to discuss how nutrient‑dense staple varieties move from research labs to farmers’ fields. Moderator Brenda Mareri outlined the organization’s two‑pronged model—Harvest Plus’s science engine and Harvest Plus Solutions’...
Fermi Paradox: Uninterested Aliens
The video explores a less‑discussed solution to the Fermi paradox—advanced civilizations may simply be uninterested in announcing themselves, choosing highly directional, low‑energy communications rather than galaxy‑wide beacons. It argues that broadcasting an omnidirectional, yottawatt‑scale beacon would require harnessing a star’s output...
A Planetary Cold Case: Using JWST to Uncover the Catastrophic History of Neptune’s Moons
The lecture focused on new James Webb Space Telescope observations of Neptune’s tiny inner moons and rings, aiming to decipher how the ice giant’s satellite system formed and evolved. Dr. Riley Davis presented high‑resolution IFU spectra that capture reflected sunlight...
Perseverance Rover Captures New Selfie and Panorama on Mars
The latest release from NASA shows Perseverance rover taking a high‑definition selfie and a 360‑degree panorama of the Jezero crater floor, marking the first such composite imagery since its 2021 touchdown. The selfie, captured by the rover’s navigation cameras, displays the...
BBC Journalist Discovers His DNA Matches Skeleton of Doomed Franklin Expedition Sailors. #BBCNews
BBC journalist learned his DNA matches the remains of John Bridgens, a sailor on the ill‑fated 1845 Franklin expedition that vanished while attempting to navigate the Canadian Arctic. The expedition’s two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, became trapped in ice,...
Microplastics and Human Health: How Plastics Affect Your Body
The webinar, hosted by NYU’s Dr. Dennis Goodman and featuring environmental health expert Dr. Leonard Trasande, examined the growing concern that micro‑ and nanoplastics permeate the human body and may contribute to chronic disease. It framed the issue as a...
Bioelectronics – Technology Interfaces with the Human Body | The Royal Society
Professor John Rogers, winner of the 2026 Baker Medal, delivered a Royal Society lecture titled “Bioelectronics – technology interfaces with the human body,” outlining the field’s evolution from early microscopy philanthropy to modern wearable medical devices. Rogers described how ultra‑thin silicon...
"If CPT Is Violated That Is a Complete Calamity"
The video discusses CPT symmetry—charge conjugation, parity, and time reversal—and argues that its violation would constitute a fundamental crisis in physics. It explains CPT as a 180° rotation that swaps space and time, a transformation forbidden by special relativity but permitted...
The Negative Mass Particle Explanation Is Wrong
The video challenges the popular notion that black holes shrink by absorbing "negative‑mass" particles. Instead, it argues that Hawking radiation can be understood entirely within conventional quantum field theory, with no exotic matter required. The speaker explains that particle‑antiparticle pairs...
WHO's Assessment on Hantavirus Continues to Be that the Risk to Health Globally Is Low
The World Health Organization reaffirmed that the global health risk from hantavirus remains low, even as a recent cluster of suspected and confirmed cases prompted heightened attention. WHO first warned of the cluster on May 2, and since then no fatalities...
Michael Pollan on Consciousness, Psychedelics, and the Limits of Neuroscience
In this interview Michael Pollan explores how psychedelics have reshaped his inquiry into consciousness, linking his latest book “A World Appears” to earlier work “How to Change Your Mind.” He frames the conversation around the persistent “hard problem” of how...
Hantavirus and Misinformation
The video warns viewers that much of the hantavirus information circulating online is unverified and designed to provoke fear rather than inform. It clarifies that hantavirus primarily spreads through contact with infected rodent droppings and is far less transmissible than the...
We Were Wrong About Aspirin (New Evidence)
The video examines how new randomized evidence overturns the long‑standing belief that daily low‑dose aspirin prevents cancer in otherwise healthy adults. Early observational studies and a 2010 meta‑analysis by Peter Rothwell suggested a one‑third reduction in cancer deaths, prompting the...
Stanford Sustainability Forum | Moonshots and Manpower: The Two Fronts of the Energy Transition
The Stanford Sustainability Forum focused on the twin challenges of the energy transition: breakthrough technologies and the human workforce needed to scale the grid. Speakers Connor Galloway of Eximer Energy and Brian De of Foundry Logic highlighted that U.S. electricity...
Optical Illusions and How We Percieve Colour with Andrew Hansen #shorts #opticalillusion #science
The video explores how humans perceive color through optical illusions and after‑images, using a simple experiment where viewers stare at an elephant image and then observe the complementary hue that appears when the picture is removed. Andrew Hansen explains that prolonged...
MedStory: The Hidden Gene Behind Sudden Cardiac Death
The video explains how a rare inherited disorder, arrhythmogenic right‑ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), is driven by mutations in the plakophilin‑2 (PKP2) gene, a hidden cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. Stanford’s HEROIC PKP2 trial uses a non‑replicating adeno‑associated virus to...
Inaugural Abell-Hodgson Open Lecture on Regenerative Agri-Food Systems
The inaugural Abell‑Hodgson Open Lecture framed regenerative agri‑food systems as a response to a looming polycrisis—simultaneous climate change, biodiversity collapse, and entrenched social inequity. The speaker, an engineer‑economist with personal ties to food safety, opened by mapping the audience’s diversity...
She's a Crustacean. She's a Mom. She's a Roly Poly.
The video from KQED’s Deep Look spotlights the surprising maternal behavior of roly‑polies, or pill bugs, drawing a playful parallel to kangaroo parenting. It explains that roly‑polies are not insects but terrestrial isopod crustaceans whose females house 40‑60 eggs in a...
Starship Flight 12 Has a New Date, What's Left To Do Before Launch?
SpaceX announced that its Starship Flight 12 has moved past the wet‑dress rehearsal milestone, but the launch date has slipped from the previously cited May 15 window. The full stack—Starship SN‑39 atop Super Heavy booster 19—was fully fueled with over 5,000 metric tons of propellant,...
Brain Plasticity Never Late
The video emphasizes that brain plasticity remains robust well into the seventh and eighth decades, challenging the common belief that cognitive decline is inevitable after a certain age. It outlines five pillars of brain health—nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, and mental...
Red & Black Knights (Extraordinary Result) - Numberphile
Numberphile’s latest video examines how knights placed on an infinite chessboard evolve under simple, deterministic rules. Starting with a single‑color “courteous” knight that occupies the lowest unvisited square on a square‑spiral, the author shows that the resulting pattern settles into...
What Newton and Einstein Agreed on that Our Society Doesn’t | Sean Carroll
The video explains that both Newtonian and Einsteinian physics share a core principle: the fundamental equations are reversible in time, meaning a complete state determines both past and future. Sean Carroll emphasizes that this time‑symmetry contrasts with our everyday experience...
Physics Just Gave 4 Separate Proofs The Universe Is A Simulation The Last One Is The Most Disturbing
The video presents a four‑part argument that the cosmos is a computer‑generated simulation, using the persistent silence of extraterrestrial signals as its opening clue. It first revisits the Drake equation and the resulting Fermi paradox, noting that even conservative estimates predict...
How to Find an Alien Civilization
The video traces the evolution of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, from its mid‑20th‑century roots in narrow‑band radio listening to today’s broader technosignature strategies. Early SETI relied on the tidy notion that alien societies would broadcast obvious “hello” signals, prompting...
What if Yesterday’s Glass Bottle Could Become Tomorrow’s Building Material?
The video spotlights a new circular‑economy solution: converting discarded glass bottles into high‑value building materials using 3D printing. Vitriform 3D, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, crushes post‑consumer glass into sand‑sized particles and then binds them layer‑by‑layer with a binder‑jet...
Should Thailand Be Concerned About Hantavirus? #Hantavirus #ThaiPBSWorld
The video addresses whether Thailand should worry about hantavirus, noting that no cases have been identified domestically. Health officials classify the current infection risk as low, even though a different hantavirus strain was found in the country half a century...
The Most Impressive Anti-Aging Supplement
The video spotlights Glynac, a blend of the amino acid glycine and N‑acetylcysteine, as perhaps the most comprehensive anti‑aging supplement on the market. Originating from mouse studies that suggested lifespan extension, the formula has migrated into human research. Multiple randomized, placebo‑controlled...
Breathing for Endurance Athletes: Can Better Breathing Improve Performance?
The Fast Talk episode explores whether endurance athletes can improve performance by training their breathing. Host Rob Pickles and guests—exercise physiologist Dr. Steven Chung, coach Steve Neil, and researcher Jared Berg—break down core respiratory concepts and debate the “body knows best” stance of...
Dr. Valter Longo on GLP-1, Growth Hormone Peptides and the Diet That Reverses Aging | EP#417
In this episode, longevity researcher Dr. Valter Longo critiques the hype surrounding GLP‑1 agonists and growth‑hormone‑releasing peptides, arguing that they are not the panacea for anti‑aging. He contrasts these pharmacologic shortcuts with dietary regimens that aim to reverse aging through...
The Future of Consciousness Research | Lucia Melloni
Lucia Melloni outlines the evolution of consciousness research, tracing its journey from early philosophical musings to a rigorous empirical discipline. She highlights the pivotal role of the 2000 Crick‑Koch paper, which reframed the field around neural correlates of consciousness and...
Is Fascia a Major Source of Musculoskeletal Pain?
The video examines whether fascia— the body’s connective tissue network— is a primary driver of musculoskeletal pain. It challenges the traditional view that muscle contraction alone generates discomfort, highlighting the dense population of nociceptors within fascia, periosteum, and joint capsules. Key...