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Exhaled breath can have hundreds of different compounds in it, some of which could have diagnostic potential.Credit: GettyThe chemicals found in a person’s breath might reveal…

Cohort description and recruitmentA total of 134 volunteers comprising babies (4–15 months old at nursery start, median 10 months, 18 male, 25 female) about to attend the first…

November 25, 20254 min read‘Saving Room’ for a Big Thanksgiving Dinner Can Be Bad for Gut HealthSkipping meals before a big holiday feast probably isn’t the…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Halloween, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Halloween is pretty much my favorite holiday. That’s mostly because of the crisp autumn…

It is a coffee beloved by Hollywood and influencers – now researchers say they have found an ingredient that could help explain the unique flavour of…

You can buy a smart ring to track your sleep activity or a smartwatch to monitor your heartbeat, so perhaps it makes sense that health tech’s…

The Department of Education’s second round of layoffs affected nearly 500 employees and left several offices with a few or no staffers. Photo illustration by Justin…

When the gut health revolution began a decade or so ago, few could have predicted the sheer variety of pre- and probiotic foods that we would come to embrace…

This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors.Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m…

The trillions of microbes that live in your gut are likened to “little pets living inside your intestinal tract.” Or at least, that’s how Gail Cresci,…