Health
Eating More Plants Slows Your Biological Clock, Not Just Your Chronological One
Your body keeps two kinds of time. One is chronological, the steady tick of years that nobody argues with.
Mar 31, 2026
Health
Putting Dirt on Your Doormat Could Lower Your Child’s Asthma Risk
The prescription sounds, at first, like a joke. Take a handful of forest soil. Press it into a rug.
Mar 31, 2026
Social Sciences
Ending Birthright Citizenship Could Create 6 Million Children Without Legal Status by 2050
By 2050, a single policy change now before the Supreme Court could leave 3.4 million people living in the United States without citizenship, born on American…
Mar 31, 2026
Bloggers
A Catalyst That Heats Itself Up Can Turn Sunlight and CO2 into Fuel
Light hits a particle of indium oxide, and something unusual happens. The palladium clusters dotting its surface don't just absorb the photons.
Mar 31, 2026
Health
MIT Engineers Rewire Living Muscle to Power Paralyzed Organs From the Inside
Cut the motor nerve to a muscle and the muscle dies. Not immediately, and not all at once, but the atrophy is relentless; without the signal from the brain telling it to contract, the tissue simply wastes away.
Mar 31, 2026
Health
Your Gut Bacteria Are Running a Chemical Embassy to Your Immune System
Take a single molecule. A secondary bile acid called deoxycholic acid, made when certain gut bacteria chew through a cholesterol-derived compound your liver has secreted.
Mar 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being Betrayed by Your Own Side Causes Far More Trauma Than Being Attacked by the Enemy
There is something the standard model of wartime trauma gets badly wrong. For decades, researchers studying the psychological aftermath of armed conflict have…
Mar 31, 2026
Health
Why Human Language Evolved to Make Us Funnier, Not Just Friendlier
The silverback doesn't need words. He displays, he charges, he thumps his chest; the competition, if they have any sense, backs away.
Mar 31, 2026
Health
Antidepressant Cuts Long COVID Fatigue. Metformin Not So Much.
Some symptoms announce themselves loudly. Long COVID fatigue doesn't. It accumulates: a heaviness that makes getting dressed feel like a project, that turns the walk from bedroom to kitchen into something requiring planning.
Mar 30, 2026
Social Sciences
The Ash Inside Pompeii’s Household Altars Reveals a Trade Empire in Miniature
The vessel is not much to look at. A terracotta bowl, hemispherical, its rim decorated with three small female figures in relief, two busts flanking a reclining woman.
Mar 30, 2026
Health
The Cleaning Spray in Your Kitchen May Be Damaging Your Lungs
Next time you reach for the disinfectant spray to wipe down your counters, consider what happens in the seconds after you pull the trigger.
Mar 30, 2026
Health
Drug Screen Found Way to Keep Dying Vision Cells Alive
Central vision loss is, in a very particular sense, a slow erasure. The cells responsible for reading, for recognising faces, for the whole rich foreground of human sight are called cone photoreceptors.
Mar 30, 2026
Technology
Repurposed Optics Gear Rescues Quantum States from a Sea of Noise
The photon is there, somewhere. Paired with its partner, encoded with quantum information, travelling through a fibre-optic cable or bouncing off a satellite mirror toward a detector on the ground.
Mar 30, 2026
Social Sciences
Study Finds Men Who Support the Tradwife Trend Are Driven by Resentment, Not Chivalry
The image is carefully curated: sourdough cooling on a scrubbed wooden counter, a woman in a floral apron, a husband greeted at the door.
Mar 29, 2026