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What Scientists Just Discovered About REM Sleep A large new study has linked more REM sleep with a lower risk of 83 diseases—including dementia, heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. The finding is striking, but the […]

Three digits. That’s all it takes to summon help when your world is falling apart. Whether it’s a screeching car crash, a sudden chest pain, or the terrifying sight of smoke billowing from a neighbor’s roof, […]

It weighs as much as a mouse, stretches across an adult’s palm, and once thrived across New Zealand’s forests. By the 1990s, it was presumed extinct on the mainland. Now, after a 15-year rescue mission […]

For a long time, humans liked to believe we were the only truly “smart” species on the planet. We built cities, wrote symphonies, and invented the internet, so clearly, we were the undisputed champions of […]

In our last deep dive into genetics, we explored the fascinating ways your mother leaves an exclusive biological mark on you, from mitochondrial DNA to your initial microbiome. But what about Dad? The old adage says you […]

We are often told that we get exactly 50% of our DNA from our mother and 50% from our father. It’s the foundational rule of genetics. But biology, as it turns out, loves a good exception. While […]

When we talk about the “age of liquor,” we aren’t talking about how long a single-malt Scotch has been resting in an oak barrel. We’re talking about something much more controversial, culturally loaded, and heavily […]

The ballot box is supposed to be the great equalizer. But the age at which you are finally handed the key to the democracy machine varies wildly depending on where you were born. When we talk […]

When it comes to tying the knot, there is no universal “right time.” For decades, we’ve relied on broad cultural stereotypes to guess when people settle down. We assume developed nations marry late, traditional societies marry […]

Women are often told we are mysterious, complex, and hard to read. But the truth is, we aren’t actually that mysterious. We just don’t talk about the highly specific, slightly petty, and deeply relatable things […]