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GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro are helping millions of people rapidly lose weight. But the changes happening inside the body go far beyond the number on…

In 1981 the CD was born and so was I. Both arrivals were surprising and have drifted in and out of fashion ever since. As a…

During the two-month endurance test that was The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global press tour, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway hinted that the long-awaited sequel to…

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…