
‘Wolverine’ stack, ‘peptide parties,’ ‘biohacking’: Is the peptide craze backed by science?
As peptide “stacking” takes over social media feeds, we separate the science from the hype of the Internet’s latest wellness obsession

‘Wolverine’ stack, ‘peptide parties,’ ‘biohacking’: Is the peptide craze backed by science?
As peptide “stacking” takes over social media feeds, we separate the science from the hype of the Internet’s latest wellness obsession

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! Famed naturalist marks 100 years
David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say

Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said the work wouldn’t continue

Getting the same amount of rest each day may be tied to slower biological aging
Stable rhythms of rest and activity are associated with healthier biological age markers, a new study suggests

Math and statistics help explain the FBI’s ‘missing scientists’ cases
Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers

Shake it off: NASA’s Curiosity rover gets its robotic arm stuck inside a rock on Mars
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, but the Mars rover Curiosity just keeps on groovin’—even if its handlers had to spend several days freeing its drill from a rock
Peering into Earth’s climate past is getting ever more bizarre
Earth’s ancient climate is written in... ostrich eggshells and stomach oil?

Skeletons of four doomed Franklin Expedition sailors identified with DNA
The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic

A dangerous experiment is playing out on a cruise ship with hantavirus
The tragic and fatal outbreak of hantavirus onboard a luxury cruise ship highlights the gaps in research and treatments for the rare and mysterious infection—including how the virus spreads among people

Here’s what MAHA voters really want from health care policy
A new KFF poll found that voters aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement consider the cost of health care as their top policy priority

Could this fungus live on Mars? Maybe it already does
An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

The return of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award is missing the point, health experts say
Researchers say that President Donald Trump’s resurrection of widely maligned fitness testing in schools is “half-baked” and unlikely to move the needle on youth physical activity alone