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ScienceWhy Some People Need Less Sleep: A Gene Clue
Somewhere out there, a small number of people wake up after about six hours of sleep and feel completely rested. For most of us, that would mean walking around exhausted. For them, it's just Tuesday.…
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The Hidden History Behind Our Word O'Clock
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Queen Bees Survive Pesticides by Offloading Them to Eggs
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One Diet, Two Wildly Different Cholesterol Outcomes
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The Sleep Window Where Organs Age Slowest
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Why Multilingual Brains May Age Slower
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Buried on purpose, and no one knows why
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450 million years old, still soft tissue inside
August 31, 2026
Scientists Engineer Yeast to Produce Glue for Future Mars Habitats
A team of researchers just 3D-printed a brick out of sand, gelatin, and genetically engineered yeast, with Mars in mind. The yeast isn't…
October 14, 2026
Why Time May Not Be as Fundamental as We Think
Two people can watch the same two events happen across the universe and correctly disagree about which one happened first. That's not…
October 11, 2026
Evidence Suggests Life May Have Originated Twice, Not Once
Every living thing on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales, reads its DNA using the exact same genetic code. That shared code is usually…
October 9, 2026
Low Vitamin D Tied to Greater Pain, Higher Opioid Use Post-Mastectomy
Before a mastectomy, doctors check plenty of things: blood pressure, blood counts, hormone markers. Vitamin D usually isn't one of them. A…
October 9, 2026
Why Unfocused Minds May Forge Unexpected Creative Connections
For years, a wandering mind was treated as something to correct. Now researchers studying ADHD are asking whether that same tendency works…
October 8, 2026
Cancer Diagnoses Could Climb 67 Percent Worldwide by 2050
An estimated 20.6 million new cancer cases and 9.8 million cancer deaths occurred worldwide in 2024. By 2050, researchers project the…
October 7, 2026
Mindfulness Training May Improve Heart Health Markers
Eight weeks. That's not much time to move something as stubborn as blood pressure, a number that usually only responds to medication, salt…
October 5, 2026
The Layered Corporate Structure Financing a $3.2 Billion AI Data Center
Firefighters responding to a blaze at a $3.2 billion AI data center in upstate New York expected a modern facility built for exactly this…
October 4, 2026
Stars Keep Surviving Close Encounters With Supermassive Black Holes
A star near the galaxy ESO 253-G003 has been getting raked across the edge of a supermassive black hole, over and over, for years. It's…
October 4, 2026
Neuroscientist Challenges the Idea of a Central Decision-Making Brain Region
Picture a tiny person sitting behind your eyes, watching everything you see, then pressing a button that makes your body act. That's…
October 3, 2026
Long-Term Melatonin Use Linked to 90% Higher Heart Failure Risk
A statistic like this is designed to stop you mid-scroll: people with long-term insomnia who took melatonin nightly for an extended stretch…
October 3, 2026
US Military Admits Placing Space Control Weapons in Orbit
Somewhere above your head right now, the United States has weapons in orbit. That's not a leak, a rumor, or a satellite conspiracy theory.…
September 30, 2026
AI Apps Advertising Allegedly Faking Nude Images of Real Teen Girls on Social Media
Meta says its ad rules are clear: no promoting apps that turn a real photo into a fake nude. In 2026, that rule didn't hold up to a simple…
September 30, 2026
Could Creatine Help Treat Depression? Evidence Is Accumulating
Your gym bag might contain more than a muscle supplement. Creatine, the stuff bodybuilders scoop into shakers, is now showing up in a very…
September 29, 2026
Why Some Italian Restaurants Let Diners Keep the Dish
In 1964, an Italian advertising executive named Dino Villani came up with an unusual pitch for restaurants: serve your regional specialty,…
September 29, 2026
A Simple Starting Point for Building a Financial Plan
A third of Americans have a written financial plan. That means two out of three don't, and if you're one of them, the reason probably isn't…
September 28, 2026
Preliminary Study Ties Vitamin D to Sharper Cognitive Scores
Vitamin D has a reputation as the sunshine vitamin. New research suggests it might also have something to do with a sharper mind, but only…
September 26, 2026
The Future of Radiology Is AI Assisted, Not AI Replaced
In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the so-called "godfathers of AI" and a Turing Award winner, told an audience something bold: stop training…
September 26, 2026
How Yeast Beta-Glucan Could Train Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Your bone marrow doesn't just make blood. It runs a factory that produces every immune cell patrolling your body: monocytes, macrophages,…
September 26, 2026
18-Year-Old Creates Plant-Based Plastic Designed to Remove Microplastics
What would happen if plastic could clean up after itself? That's not a thought experiment anymore. It's Eco Purge, a plant-based plastic…
September 20, 2026
Grand Canyon's Rock Layers May Predate the Canyon by a Billion Years
Stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon and you're looking at nearly two billion years of Earth's history stacked in stone. But hidden inside…
September 19, 2026
PhosCage Claims Record-Setting Uranium Extraction Rate From Seawater
Uranium dissolved in seawater has been treated as a resource everyone knew about and nobody could actually use. That may be changing. A…
September 17, 2026
Broken Heart Syndrome: When Grief Becomes a Body Problem
Grief isn't just an emotion. Doctors have a name for it happening to your actual heart: takotsubo cardiomyopathy, more commonly called…
September 15, 2026
How Standard Wi-Fi Signals Can Track People Without Them Knowing
Your Wi-Fi router talks to your phone constantly, even when you're not doing anything online. Most of that chatter is invisible and…
September 13, 2026