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Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Make Testosterone Near the Prostate, With Potential Implications for Cancer - zmescience.com

Health September 10, 2026

Illustration made with the help of AI. Credit: ZME Science. The prostate relies on testosterone to regulate normal growth, development and function. But in some situations, this natural relationshiοΏ½...

The Human Mind May Be No Match for Modern Life - ZME Science

Health July 5, 2026

Credit: ZME Science. The human brain did not evolve to wake up with an alarm clock, check strangers achievements on social media, learn about the latest global disaster and calculate its social wortοΏ½...

Scientists Studied Half A Million People And Found A Sleep Sweet Spot For Healthy Aging - ZME Science

Health May 17, 2026

Credit: ZME Science. Sleep is not just rest for the brain. It is maintenance for the whole body. A new and interesting study of about half a million adults found that people who slept around six οΏ½...

AI Just Cracked the Rules of a Lost Roman Board Game, and It’s Unlike Anything We Expected - ZME Science

Technology February 12, 2026

A potential ancient Roman gameboard with pencil marks highlighting the incised lines. Credit: Walter Crist During a brief respite from COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of 2020, archaeologist Walter οΏ½...

Scientists May Finally Know Why You Can't Remember Being a Baby and The Answer Is Tiny Immune Cells Acting as Memory Janitors - ZME Science

Health January 22, 2026

Credit: Unsplash/Eduardo Barrios. Try to remember your first birthday party. You can probably conjure up a vague image based on a photograph your parents showed you a thousand times. That mental imaοΏ½...

Hidden Aging Cliff in Sperm Related to RNA Could Explain Health Risks in Children of Older Dads - ZME Science

Health January 22, 2026

Credit: Deon Black, Unsplash. The so-called ticking biological clock has been framed largely as a concern for women. We talk about egg freezing, ovarian reserve, and the ticking timeline of maternalοΏ½...

Scientists Put Human Gut Bacteria Into Mice and Found Their Brains Showed Primate-like Activity - ZME Science

Health January 8, 2026

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. The human brain is a greedy organ. It gulps energy, demands constant upkeep, and somehow grew far larger (relative to body size) than the brains of any other primate.οΏ½...

Does Music Training Really Make Children Smarter? Psychologists Say We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question - ZME Science

Health December 20, 2025

Credit: Pexels. Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and they’ll get smarter. Mainstream news headlines have helped fue...