Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

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A new study could guide the design of more powerful and faster charging lithium-ion batteries. MIT researchers measured ...

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Joseph Coolon, associate professor of biology and director of the College of Integrative Sciences, has published five papers, ...

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been ...

David Brito is a postdoctoral researcher at the ABC CoLAB – Ageing Better and Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute (ABC-RI) and, an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine and ...

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prizes.