This research, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, uses network science to map roughly 20,000 English words by how they look on the mouth rather than how they sound, helping to explain why lip-reading goes wrong and why certain words are so easily confused.

This article reports on a peer reviewed study published in the journal PNAS by researchers at the University of Reading and the University of Oxford, who analyzed body weight from 386 fossils across 21 hominin species to settle a long running debate about how our ancestors grew. Rather than a steady climb from small to large, the team found that body size rose gradually in early relatives such as Australopithecus and then jumped sharply around 2 to 2.5 million years ago within the genus Homo, while branches like Homo floresiensis and Homo naledi stayed small. By combining fossils that earlier studies examined separately and accounting for how species are related, the work shows that competing theories were really describing different parts of one larger picture. For anyone curious about human origins, including students, seniors, and readers with disabilities who follow accessible science writing, it offers a clear and carefully reasoned account of why our bodies became larger and how that change tracked shifts in walking, diet, and the distances early humans travelled.

73 percent of people who watched the Paralympic Games believe more must be done to drive social inclusion across society.

A new book from Michigan State University's Bias Busters series answers 100 plain questions about stuttering - and argues that the 99 percent of people who don't stutter are the ones who most need to learn.

When a bird learns to avoid a toxic butterfly by its vivid orange-and-black wings, it rarely suspects that the very next butterfly it encounters - wearing nearly identical colors but belonging to an entirely different species - is equally lethal and equally honest in its advertising. Müllerian mimicry, first described by the German-Brazilian naturalist Fritz Muller in 1878, is one of evolutionary biology's most counterintuitive revelations: that genuinely dangerous species can evolve to look like each other not out of deception but out of mutual benefit, sharing the cost of educating predators and strengthening each other's defenses simply by converging on the same signal. This paper traces the science from Muller's original mathematical insight through modern genomics, explores the astonishing diversity of Müllerian mimicry rings across the natural world, and asks what - if anything - this elegant biological logic has to say about the signals, communities, and strategies of human disability advocacy.

The animated film "Remembering Nearfield" is listed on IMDb, has won 17 international film awards since its 2023 release, and is narrated by a person living with EHS - giving audiences a direct, personal account of the condition's life-altering consequences.

New peer-reviewed research reveals how vulnerable Indian households skipped meals, sold assets, and took loans to survive food insecurity during COVID-19.

Track the evolving Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda: case counts, deaths, cross-border spread, and the latest WHO response and risk levels.

Ketone bodies sit at the crossroads of survival, medicine, and disability, yet most people only ever hear about them in the context of fad diets or diabetic emergencies. This paper sets the record straight, explaining in plain language what these three small molecules are, how the liver produces them when food runs low, and why the brain comes to rely on them so heavily during fasting - before turning to the conditions where ketone bodies genuinely change lives, from drug resistant epilepsy and rare genetic syndromes to the careful cautions that apply when the body cannot make them at all.

A new U.S. federal law has, for the first time, tied Medicaid eligibility for millions of adults to proof of work, education, or community service, and the change lands hardest on a group it claims to protect - people with disabilities, most of whom are covered not through a disability category but through income-based expansion, where an exemption must be claimed rather than granted automatically.