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How Unemployment Can Take a Toll on Our Mental Health
Source — Nov 13, 2025
The emotional impact of unemployment can be profound, experts say — but speaking up about it and building a support system can help.
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds
Source — Nov 13, 2025
After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.
What Are Antidepressants Doing to Teen Sexual Development
Source — Nov 13, 2025
Research on adults who take S.S.R.I.s shows they tamp down sexual desire. Why aren’t we studying what that could mean for adolescents who take them?
Arline Bronzaft, Who Campaigned for a Quieter City, Dies at 89
Source — Nov 13, 2025
She studied the impact of noise on health and classroom learning and helped impose stricter regulations in New York City.
Your anxiety may be controlled by hidden immune cells in the brain
Source — Nov 13, 2025
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that anxiety may be controlled not by neurons but by two dueling groups of immune cells inside the brain. These microglia act like biological pedals—one pushing anxiety for…
New study finds hidden diabetes danger in vaping
Source — Nov 13, 2025
Smoking, vaping, or using both products significantly increases the likelihood of developing prediabetes and diabetes, and the risk is even higher among Hispanic, Black, and low-income groups. Researchers found that vap…
Smart drug strikes a hidden RNA weak point in cancer cells
Source — Nov 13, 2025
Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug recognizes a unique fold in the RNA and triggers the cell to destroy it. Tests showed that remov…
Strange microscopic structures found in Long COVID blood
Source — Nov 13, 2025
Scientists have discovered strange microscopic structures in the blood of people with Long COVID—clusters of tiny microclots tangled together with sticky immune webs known as neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs. The…