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Five Manuka honey samples, graded UMF 5+ through 20+, were dissolved in warm sterile water, pushed through a filter fine enough to strip out any stray microbes, and pipetted into 96-well plates in a descending series of concentrations.
Aug 29, 2026
Nine preregistered experiments found a serial bottleneck for mentally updating two independent moving objects, while visible motion, grouping and other controls narrowed what the result means.
Aug 29, 2026
The famous 392-year figure was the midpoint of a 272-to-512-year probability range, but even the lower bound exceeded the previous vertebrate longevity record.
Aug 29, 2026
Only one crinoid fossil had ever been found with a tube foot on it. Across a record that runs 485 million years, exactly one…
Aug 29, 2026
AARP's 44% versus 22% gap compares a retrospective judgment about one's own life with a belief about other people, while neutral responses and the one-time design limit what it can show.
Aug 29, 2026
Four studies linked effortful happiness maximization with weaker subsequent self-control, but the shared-resource mechanism was inferred and no long-term habits were measured.
Aug 29, 2026
3I/ATLAS crossed back beyond Jupiter's orbital distance about 262 days after discovery. Its strongly hyperbolic path means the interstellar comet will not circle the Sun again.
Aug 28, 2026
A worldwide archive revealed thousands of ancient human brains, including a chemically puzzling group that outlasted every other soft organ.
Aug 28, 2026
At an age when most retreat, she insisted on reinvention—and showed what happens when curiosity outlasts ambition.
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 28, 2026
