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A new study explains how cholesterol-lowering medications can lead to muscle damage and identifies a possible approach to making these treatments safer. Statins have dramatically improved cardiovascular health by lowering cholesterol levels and reducing the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes. Yet many people who take these medications experience unwanted muscle symptoms...

Astronomers analysing the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have found an unexpectedly high amount of methanol not only in the comet's centre but also far into the surrounding coma, defying existing theories on comet chemistry, and offering new insights into cometary matter beyond our solar system. This intriguing discovery marks one of many unique finds about the

Just 500 million years after the Big Bang, a colossal black hole, 300 million times the mass of the Sun, was already blazing at the heart of a tiny, brilliant galaxy. Found with JWST, this discovery could explain the strange "Little Red Dots" seen in the early cosmos and rewrites what we thought was possible

A new long-necked marine reptile, Plesionectes longicollum, has been identified from a decades-old fossil found in Germany’s Posidonia Shale. The remarkably preserved specimen rewrites part of the Jurassic marine story, revealing unexpected diversity during a time of oceanic chaos. It is now the oldest known plesiosaur from Holzmaden...

Eating three servings of French fries a week is associated with a 20% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but eating similar amounts of potatoes cooked in other ways -- boiled, baked or mashed -- does not substantially increase the risk, finds a study published by The BMJ on August 6. What's more, replacing

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Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — and they're strewn throughout our galaxy just waiting to blow...

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