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Mind & body

A promising new weight loss and diabetes treatment helps burn fat while keeping muscle

Unlike GLP-1s, which work by suppressing appetite and lowering energy intake, a molecular compound identified by UC Berkeley scientists helps cells burn extra energy with no change in food intake or exercise, and shows promise in mouse models.

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North and South America weren’t always connected, but their mammals still found a way to intermingle

Mind & body

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors

Research

Scientists discover how algae colonized corals — a symbiosis that fueled the growth of the world’s reefs

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats

The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad

A breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of our body’s tiniest proteins

As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to grow

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it. - Video

New Gateway building creates dedicated campus hub for AI, computing

Scientists split gentoo penguins into four species, one totally new to science. Three of them are already threatened.

A new way to measure breast cancer risk before tumors appear

Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don’t. - Video

One-of-a-kind experiment tracked plant evolution in response to climate change at 30 sites worldwide

Birds do it, bees do it … sip alcohol, that is

Lightning bolts on Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes

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