A safe painkiller? New research raises concerns about Tylenol’s safety in pregnancy

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in children. The study, published on August 14 in BMC Environmental Health, is the first to apply the rigorous…

140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

Research team: “This discovery reveals the world’s earliest known human fossil showing morphological traits of both of these human groups, which until recently were considered two separate human species. The current study shows that the five-year-old child’s skeleton is the result of continuous genetic infiltration from the local — and…

Animalisti contro Messner, ‘assurdo che voglia eliminare i lupi’ – Notizie – Ansa.it

Animalisti contro Reinhold Messner in Alto Adige. L’associazione ‘Lndc Animal Protection’ ha espresso la propria amarezza per le dichiarazioni del noto alpinista, che in una recente intervista ha indicato i lupi come uno dei principali “problemi” della montagna, arrivando a proporne l’abbattimento o la sterilizzazione.     “È paradossale – scrive…

Scientists finally crack the secret to perfect chocolate flavor

Researchers have identified key factors that influence the flavor of chocolate during the cocoa bean fermentation process, a discovery that could offer chocolate producers a powerful tool to craft consistently high-quality, flavor-rich chocolate. Scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Biosciences examined how cacao bean temperature, pH, and microbial…

Astronomers uncover enormous bubble bigger than our Solar System

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star – the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as much mass as the Sun, was blown out in…

Ancient solar system crash may explain Bennu and Ryugu’s origin

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The study compared spectroscopy data from Polana with spacecraft and…

Voyager missed it, but James Webb Just Found Uranus’ hidden moon

Southwest Research Institute led a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) survey, discovering a previously unknown tiny moon orbiting Uranus. A team led by SwRI’s Dr. Maryame El Moutamid discovered the small object in a series of images taken on Feb. 2, 2025, bringing Uranus’ total moon count to 29. “As…

Maltempo: allagamenti in Veneto, nubifragi e fulmini in Toscana – Notizie – Ansa.it

Maltempo in estensione sull’Italia: oggi allerta arancione in Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Lombardia, Toscana e Veneto; gialla in Campania, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, e Umbria. Persiste il caldo al Sud: bollino giallo oggi a Bari, Catania e Palermo.   Per approfondire Agenzia ANSA Meteo Italia, tra nubifragi ‘monsonici’…

Milano, in corso sfratto al centro sociale Leoncavallo – Notizie – Ansa.it

 La polizia sta eseguendo, con l’ufficiale giudiziario, l’ordine di sfratto emesso nei confronti dello storico centro sociale Leoncavallo a Milano.L’ordine era stato rinviato numerose volte.  Lo sfratto del centro sociale di via Watteau era stato rinviato un centinaio di volte e lo scorso novembre il ministero dell’Interno era stato condannato…

Astronomers stunned by the strangest supernova ever seen

An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of exploding star, or supernova, that is rich with silicon, sulfur and argon. When massive stars explode, astrophysicists typically find strong signatures of light elements, such as hydrogen and helium. But the newly discovered supernova,…

How hidden cosmic highways feed the Universe’s biggest stars

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible for us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe that completely dwarf our sun. Stars with masses more than eight times…

The surprising reason timber plantations explode into megafires

The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love — dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the…