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…
Aug 19, 2026
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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…
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
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…
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…
Aug 17, 2026
Morning sunlight can reset the body clock surprisingly quickly because outdoor light is vastly brighter than most indoor environments
Aug 16, 2026
Older adults with a strong sense of purpose showed measurably slower epigenetic ageing on several DNA-based biological clocks
Aug 16, 2026
Research suggests runners have a 25 to 40 percent lower risk of premature death and live roughly three years longer than non-runners
Aug 15, 2026
Dogs can smell some chemicals at concentrations approaching one part per trillion
Aug 15, 2026
The most useful exercise advice after 60 is not about doing more of one thing
Aug 15, 2026
Japanese women have ranked first in global life expectancy for 41 consecutive years, reaching 87.33 years in 2025. Japanese men live nearly…
Aug 14, 2026