Beyond Ozempic: New Obesity Drugs Could Be Cheaper and Even More Effective

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July 07, 2023

Pharmaceuticals Beyond Ozempic: New Obesity Drugs Could Be Cheaper and Even More Effective Hormone mimics offer advantages even beyond those of the potent weight-loss shots on the market now By Saima Sidik,Nature magazine

Neuroscience Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact The minds of social species are strikingly resonant By Lydia Denworth

Ecology Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery Elated researchers watched baby octopuses hatch en masse near Pacific Ocean hydrothermal vents By Ashley Balzer Vigil

Animals Great White Sharks Are Surging off Cape Cod Cape Cod has quickly become one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world and the first ever in the North Atlantic By Jim Behnke

Sleep What to Do When You Can't Fall Asleep May Surprise You When sleep feels elusive, getting out of bed can calm your mind and help you avoid bad sleep habits By Meghan Bartels

Exercise How to Keep Muscles Strong as You Age Here's why older adults naturally lose muscle mass over time and how regular physical activity and resistance training can help By Lauren J. Young

Agriculture Lab-Grown Meat Approved for Sale: What You Need to Know Cultured meat, grown from real animal cells, will soon be available in restaurants in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. By Joanna Thompson

Drug Use Science Reveals How to Roll the Perfect Joint Researchers used a smoking machine to test the intensity of marijuana rolled into joints By Rachel Berkowitz

Astronomy Solar Maximum Could Hit Us Harder and Sooner Than We Thought The sun is quickly approaching a major peak in solar activity. Experts warn it could potentially begin by the end of 2023, years before initial predictions suggested By Harry Baker,LiveScience

Transportation Yes, Airline Flights Are Getting Bumpier: Here's Why Clear-air turbulence is becoming more frequent and more intense as the atmosphere warms By Katherine Wright

Psychology How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There's a Test You Can Take A new misinformation quiz shows that, despite the stereotype, younger Americans have a harder time discerning fake headlines, compared with older generations By Joanna Thompson

BRING SCIENCE HOME Finding Fingerprints Dust for clues: Learn how a little chemistry can help you uncover hidden fingerprints all around you! Credit: George Retseck Do you know that you leave fingerprints on everything you touch? If your hands are very dirty, this is obvious because you can actually see them. But even if your hands seem clean, your fingerprints will stay behind on the surfaces you touch—they are just invisible! Do you want proof? Then make them visible in this activity and collect your own fingerprints!

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