The Petersburg Post

Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 - The death rate of severe heart attacks has risen over the past decade among Americans under 55, new research shows. Reading time 4 minutes Heart attacks have become less life-threatening over time. A study out today, however, highlights a concerning reversal of fortune for younger Americans. Researchers examined nationally representative data of hospitalized heart attack patients. Between 2011 and 2022, they found ...

Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Older adults classified as "SuperAgers" generate at least twice as many neurons in the hippocampus than their typical aging peers, a new study has revealed. These findings, released on Wednesday by the University of Illinois Chicago and Northwestern University, could help explain why SuperAgers have exceptional memory and cognitive resilience even well past 80 years old. ...

Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 - Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination When our species and Neanderthals interbred, it may have been mostly female Homo sapiens and male Neanderthals that mated. That's the conclusion of a study of the genetic traces left in both populations by the intermixing. It isn't clear why this sex-biased mating pattern would have ...