People who drink their coffee in the morning and then stop may be onto something
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
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The naked mole rat can live more than 40 years
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Aerobic capacity typically falls about 5–10% per decade after early adulthood, but that decline is far from fixed
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
A 30-year study tracking 147,374 people found a striking longevity sweet spot for strength training
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Researchers followed more than 71,000 people and found that the most optimistic were up to 70% more likely to live past 85 than the least…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Bone health is the part of your body almost nobody thinks about until something breaks, but the science on why it matters and what actually…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
In a cave in southern Italy in 1963, archaeologists found two skeletons buried in an embrace 12,000 years earlier, one of them long assumed…
By Lab Report · Aug 18, 2026
A Mayo Clinic AI re-analysed CT scans that had originally been read as normal
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 18, 2026
A suspenseful show ending on a cliffhanger raises heart rate and cortisol before bed
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Yale researchers followed 3,635 people aged 50 and older for up to 12 years and found that those reading books for more than 3.5 hours a…
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
There were no fermentation tanks in 1940, so the first penicillin was grown in hundreds of stackable ceramic vessels modelled on hospital…
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Morning sunlight can reset the body clock surprisingly quickly because outdoor light is vastly brighter than most indoor environments
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026