Health
Moving from UMF 5+ to UMF 20+ Manuka honey cut the concentration needed to shut down 95 percent of MRSA growth in a lab dish from 15…
Aug 29, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
A Harvard psychologist and his colleague set out to discover how many moving objects the human imagination can track simultaneously
Aug 29, 2026
Life
Add up every sparrow, crow, eagle, penguin and owl left in the wild, and the world's farmed chickens alone still outweigh them two to three…
Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In the middle of South Africa's worst drought on record, a 16-year-old boiled orange peels, added avocado skins and left the mix out in the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
A California wind farm paid the Oregon Zoo to raise 12 condor chicks against a federal permit that lets its turbines kill two condors in 30…
Aug 29, 2026
Life
In the entire 485-million-year fossil record of sea lilies, only one fossil had ever been found with the tube feet the animals catch their…
Aug 29, 2026
Life
A 5.02-metre female Greenland shark caught as bycatch in Greenlandic waters was estimated to be 392 years old, with a possible range of 272…
Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1960 Chicago's mayor gave Crown Prince Akihito 18 bluegill from the Shedd Aquarium as a state gift
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The habits blamed for keeping you poor matter less than the genre claims, and often run the other way
Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2024 AARP survey of 1,010 adults aged 50-plus found that 44% believed they had grown happier over time—yet only 22% thought most people…
Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and pulled up ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago
Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Hardship can make you stronger, but only in moderation, and only because of what you build afterward
Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Giving your time and money does lift people, but only when you give it a certain way
Aug 29, 2026
Life
The rule that you should drink eight glasses of water a day has been repeated for decades, but when a physiologist went looking for its…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 29, 2026