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For a long time fat was seen simply as an inert yellow substance wrapping around our bodies, but now that’s changing. Scientists are beginning to understand…

January 15, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWhat Is Beige Fat, and Is It Healthy?This mysterious type of fat cell may play an important…

Kate Winslet has described being shamed over her appearance as a young actor by schoolmates and teachers.The actor, whose directorial debut film Goodbye June was released…

It’s that time of year again, when audiences turn to a welcome distraction from the heavy news cycle: Katmai national park and preserve in southern Alaska…

The Federal Reserve’s massive hiking cycle pretty much wiped out bond investors in 2022. But you know who fared well? Loan investors.Loan investors love rising interest…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 17 September 2025 Organelles called peroxisomes have been found to have a role in heat generation in fat tissue, and use a mechanism independent…

If you visited the V&A’s Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition in 2018, you may have played an interesting minigame collection, in which you fought wobbly physics to feed a…

Where humans lead, their dogs tend to follow – now it seems that might even apply to weight-loss wonder drugs.Medications such as Wegovy have become ubiquitous…

Labour MP Jess Phillips has said the UK has got “fat” from the free labour of women for decades.The minister for safeguarding and violence against women…

Late-night hosts rebuke Paramount’s settlement with Donald Trump and mock the Maga movement infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files.Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert returned to The Late Show…