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Ozempic Just Got Another Surprise Benefit — A Study of 95,000 People Found It Cuts Depression Risk by 44%

A landmark study of nearly 95,000 people published in The Lancet Psychiatry on March 18, 2026 found that semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) was associa…

March 22, 2026 · semaglutide · Ozempic

Medicine

The World's First Oral Targeted Pill for Psoriasis Just Got FDA Approved — And 70% of Patients Cleared Their Skin

The FDA approved Icotyde (icotrokinra) on March 18, 2026 — the first-ever oral targeted peptide that precisely blocks the IL-23 receptor. In Phas…

March 22, 2026 · psoriasis · FDA approval

Medicine

A Higher-Dose Wegovy Just Got FDA Approved — And It Achieves 20.7% Average Weight Loss

The FDA approved Wegovy HD (semaglutide 7.2mg) on March 19, 2026. In the STEP UP trial, participants with obesity lost an average of 20.7% of the…

March 22, 2026 · Wegovy · semaglutide

Animals

Drones Just Found the World's Largest Turtle Nesting Site — 41,000 Giant River Turtles in the Amazon

Scientists from the University of Florida and the Wildlife Conservation Society used drones to count an astonishing 41,000+ Amazon giant river tu…

March 22, 2026 · Amazon · turtles

Climate change

The Offshore Wind Farm Trump Tried to Kill Is Now Powering 350,000 Homes

Revolution Wind, a 704-megawatt offshore wind farm off Rhode Island, survived multiple stop-work orders from the Trump administration — backed by…

March 22, 2026 · wind energy · clean energy

Science

Hubble Accidentally Caught a Comet Breaking Apart in Real Time — and the Footage Is Extraordinary

In a once-in-a-generation lucky accident, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope happened to be pointed at Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just as it began disint…

March 22, 2026 · Hubble · comet

Science

Scientists Found a Hidden 48-Dimensional Universe Inside Entangled Light — With 17,000 Distinct Patterns

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand and Huzhou University have discovered 48-dimensional topological structures hidden within en…

March 22, 2026 · quantum physics · quantum computing

Medicine

Scientists Found a 'Good' Bacteria That May Prevent Long COVID — and It Could Become a Nasal Spray

A study in Microbiology Spectrum (March 2026) by UCLouvain scientists found that higher levels of Dolosigranulum pigrum — a beneficial nasal bact…

March 22, 2026 · Long COVID · bacteria

Climate change

Ocean Bacteria Don't Work Alone — MIT Discovers the Microbial Teamwork That Breaks Down Plastic

MIT researchers publishing in Environmental Science and Technology (March 2026) found that biodegradable plastic in the ocean is broken down not …

March 22, 2026 · ocean · plastic

World

Croatia Has Cleared Every Landmine From the Wartime Era — 30 Years and 107,000 Mines Later

Croatia officially declared itself mine-free in early 2026 after a three-decade demining effort costing €1.2 billion and removing approximately 1…

March 21, 2026 · Croatia · landmines

Science

South Korea Just Named a New Dinosaur After a Beloved Cartoon Character — and It May Have Been Fuzzy

Palaeontologists from UT Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center have named a new dinosaur species Doolysaurus huhmini after Dooly the Lit…

March 21, 2026 · dinosaur · palaeontology

Science

First New Bird Species Discovered in Japan Since 1981 — Hidden in Plain Sight on Remote Islands for 3 Million Years

Researchers from Uppsala University and international collaborators have identified the Tokara Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tokaraensis) as a speci…

March 21, 2026 · bird · new species

Medicine

Scientists Found a Weight-Loss Molecule in Python Blood — and It Works Like Ozempic Without the Side Effects

Researchers from Stanford, Colorado, and Baylor discovered that Burmese pythons produce a molecule called pTOS that surges 1,000-fold after a big…

March 21, 2026 · weight loss · obesity

Medicine

A Daily Pill Just Cut 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in a Phase 3 Trial — Without Injections

Merck's new oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide reduced LDL cholesterol by nearly 60% in a 2,900-person trial — matching the power of injectable ther…

March 21, 2026 · cholesterol · heart disease

Society

California's First Graduating Class of Incarcerated Women Just Earned Their University Degrees

In a landmark moment for prison education reform, incarcerated women at a California correctional facility became the first graduating class to r…

March 21, 2026 · education · California

Science

Scientists Turned CO₂ Into Methanol Using a Single Atom. It Works 70% Better.

ETH Zurich researchers have built the world's most efficient CO₂-to-methanol catalyst using individual indium atoms — each one doing the job a wh…

March 21, 2026 · CO2 · methanol

Medicine

A 23-Year-Old in Louisiana Has Been 'Cured' of Sickle Cell Disease. He's the First in His State.

Marcus Johnson, 23, became the first person in Louisiana to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease in March 2026. His doctors say the treat…

March 21, 2026 · sickle cell disease · gene therapy

Animals

Mexico Just Banned All Dolphin Shows — 350 Dolphins Will Move to Seaside Sanctuaries

Mexico unanimously banned the use of marine mammals in entertainment, captive breeding, and swim-with programmes. Signed into law in 2025, the le…

March 21, 2026 · dolphins · Mexico