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November 26, 2025
Study links America’s favorite cooking oil to obesity
Soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the United States, contributes to obesity in mice, through a mechanism scientists are finally beginning to understand.
November 19, 2025
New type of DNA damage found in our cells’ powerhouses
A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how our bodies sense and respond to stress. The findings of the UC Riverside-led study are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and have potential implications for a range of mitochondrial dysfunction-associated diseases, including cancer and diabetes.
November 12, 2025
When ants battle bumble bees, nobody wins
When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive.
November 04, 2025
Half-billion-year-old parasite still threatens shellfish
A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct.