Banks Are Becoming Bulwarks Against Scams for Vulnerable Seniors
The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway. “The person said he was an...
Month : March 2026
2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but ‘how it got there will always be a mystery’
An intriguing coin deposited into a bus driver’s till in England in the 1950s turned out to have ancient origins: It was minted 2,000 years...
Exotic prime numbers could be hiding inside black holes
Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles” — the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can...
In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures
Sleep could encode epileptic seizures in the brain by repurposing the processes used to solidify memories, potentially making seizures harder to treat or prevent, new...
Wildfire season is shifting, but its new time windows vary across Canada and the US drought-prone West
Climate change is shifting wildfire seasons in North America, but the direction of the shift depends on the regional ecosystem, a new study shows. The...
Asante spider: A rare African sword ornament from Ghana’s Gold Coast that later helped a man in Texas barter for his life
The gold sword ornament from the Asante Empire has a unique spider shape. (Image credit: Image courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art; McDermott African...
Florida Hasn’t Expanded Medicaid. Lawmakers Want To Add Work Requirements Anyway.
In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One...
Newsom Picks a Dogfight With Trump and RFK Jr. on Public Health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies in contrast with the...
Making a ‘digital twin’ of yourself could revolutionize future surgeries, making medical procedures much more personal
Dr. John Pandolfino jokes that he comes from a long line of electricians and plumbers — and that as a gastroenterologist, he’s stayed in the...
‘More advanced’ farming women married hunter-gatherer men in Europe thousands of years ago, ancient DNA reveals
When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we...