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Living to 100 isn’t just about luck or genetics. It’s about making smart, intentional choices long before you hit retirement age. While lifestyle habits like diet, exercise, and sleep are crucial, there’s a less talked-about side to longevity that starts in the doctor’s office. Medical decisions, both big and small, can shape your long-term health…
Joy Milne knew something was wrong with her husband long before doctors did. It started with a change in his scent—a musky, waxy odor she couldn’t place. Seventeen years later, when Les was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the pieces fell into place. Then, at a support group, she smelled it again: the same distinct fragrance…
In 2023 and 2024, as AI text generators started to become mainstream, a curious trend emerged: the word “delve” began appearing in a suspicious number of science papers. It became a kind of calling card for AI-generated content — but it’s far from the weirdest one.
For years, the debate over cannabis and cancer has burned on—a haze of anecdotes, conflicting studies, and a stubborn federal classification that still ranks marijuana as dangerous and without medical use. But a new study, the largest of its kind, cuts through the smoke with surprising clarity.
Most ancient centers flexed their power with grand walls or temples. Tel Shiqmona did it with a stink. Perched on a rocky stretch of Israel’s Mediterranean coast, this unassuming outcrop was once steeped in the pungent scent of crushed mollusks—day in, day out. Though Tel Shiqmona rarely gets a mention in ancient texts, new research…
Researchers claim to have found the “strongest evidence” of biological activity outside the solar system. The findings are tantalizing, but we wouldn’t draw any conclusion just yet. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its gold-coated eye to the cosmos, we were all thinking it. Finding alien life wasn’t its main goal, but…
In the spring of 1971, an entomologist scooped a small insect from a seemingly pristine creek in the Netherlands and pinned it in a museum drawer. The larva—a species of caddisfly—had stitched together a casing from scraps it found in its freshwater world. It was a normal act of insect ingenuity, nothing that would raise…
See All Key Ideas Rising global temperatures could result in more frequent and intense heat waves which in turn could adversely affect humans and animals due to acute heat stress, resulting in casualties, illness, and decreased productivity and fitness, especially in animals.
Nearly 300 US academics, from NASA to Yale, have applied for “scientific asylum” at France’s Aix-Marseille University, fleeing Trump’s $9 billion research funding cuts and ideological crackdown in a historic brain drain.