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Melbourne's deadly thunderstorm asthma hit mostly people without diagnosed asthma

Only 28% of the emergency patients surveyed after Melbourne's 2016 thunderstorm asthma epidemic had current doctor diagnosed asthma, while 87% had hay fever, according to two studies of the same patients, in The Lancet Planetary Health (2018) and Allergy (2019). The event brought 476 excess asthma admissions in 30 hours, and ten people died.

By Justin Brown · Oct 9, 2026

How a Massachusetts town study rewrote the rules on blood pressure

In 1911 a life insurance doctor was already sorting blood pressure readings by age. Decades later many physicians still treated 100 plus your age as acceptable, until the Framingham Heart Study showed high pressure was not benign. The line has kept falling since.

By Justin Brown · Oct 9, 2026

In 1518, Strasbourg hired musicians when a woman danced in the street

A woman started dancing in the street, and the city's answer was to hire musicians. Its own records tell a smaller, stranger story than the legend. And one researcher thinks it looked more like a ritual than an illness.

By Nato Lagidze · Oct 8, 2026

Virginia's eelgrass meadows have nearly doubled since restoration began

The eelgrass meadow seeded back into Virginia's seaside bays now covers 4,792 hectares and keeps spreading on its own, according to Chris Patrick of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, up from the 3,612 hectares reported in a 2020 Science Advances paper. Disease and a hurricane wiped it out of these lagoons by 1933.

By Justin Brown · Oct 8, 2026

Staying active heals back pain faster than bed rest, study finds

A 1995 Finnish trial randomly assigned 186 people with a recent bout of low back pain to two days of bed rest, physiotherapist-taught exercises, or carrying on as the pain allowed. Recovery was slowest in the bed rest group. Pooled evidence since suggests only a small benefit.

By Justin Brown · Oct 8, 2026

Across 20 corn farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Minnesota, the regenerative fields yielded 29…

A 2018 study of 20 corn farms in the northern United States found regenerative fields grew 29 percent less grain yet reported higher profits. This article examines where that profit came from, what later research found, and whether the result can scale.

By Justin Brown · Oct 7, 2026

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Australian doctor drank bacteria broth, won Nobel Prize for ulcer discovery

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Your brain mistakes relaxing muscles for the sensation of falling

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Watermelon picked up 97 percent of bacteria in massive five-second rule study

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Handwriting activates brain regions for speech and movement when recognizing letters

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Caffeine doesn't give you energy, just hides how tired you actually are

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The world's first webcam spent a decade watching a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab

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Cheese brine waste becomes Wisconsin's secret weapon against icy roads

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17-year-old built a $100 earthquake detector that warns LA seconds before shaking hits

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Concrete made with crushed glass bottles gets stronger than normal, slower to peak

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Offshore wind turbine blade failure closes Nantucket beaches, triggers $10.5M settlement

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Abandoned rapeseed field became home to 86 plant species in 11 years with no help

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France's dam demolition freed Atlantic salmon to spawn upstream for first time in decades

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Hundreds raced to climb Uluru before Australia banned it forever

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Dogs align with Earth's magnetic field to defecate, but only when it's stable

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Golden jackals are naturally spreading from the Balkans deep into Western Europe

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Lions fed whole prey spent more time eating but paced more, not less

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