Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most common brain tumors in humans. “We think this hydrogel will be the future,” said study leader Professor…

Lager is the world’s most popular beer, and new research shows it was invented by accident more than 400 years ago in Bavaria. The yeast that is currently used to brew cold beer originated in Munich, at the court of Maximilian the Great, after two different yeasts came into contact…

A man celebrating his birthday dressed as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings was on a pub crawl when he suddenly bumped into Sir Ian McKellen. Tolkien super-fan Ben Coyles was out marking his 22nd birthday when he ran into the iconic British actor who played the part. McKellen, who…

A patient who was left almost completely paralyzed from a rare disease is now walking and talking again, after a music therapist prescribed mindful listening to his favorite song every night—in this case, a tune by The Carpenters. 71 year-old Ian Palmer was struck down with Guillain-Barré syndrome last June,…

30 years ago today, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) changed the world forever. Tim Berners-Lee, after creating the first-ever website, announced that the “World Wide Web”—created by using their new HTML protocols—would be available for free to everyone. Thousands of websites were created in the days that followed.…