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A Massive Brain Study Reveals the Hidden Work Your Mind Does While You Read

How the brain handles letters, words, sentences, and entire texts.

The UK just trained a health AI on 57 million people to predict disease

A new AI trained on nearly all of England’s health data may reshape medicine.

AI and Brain Scans Reveal Why You Struggle to Recognize Faces of People of Other Races

Sometimes, the face in front of us isn’t the one our brain is seeing

People Spend $12,000 to Tattoo Their Eyes and Change Their Color but the Risks Are Still Unknown

A new cosmetic trend lets people tattoo their corneas to change eye color.

What It’s Like to Live With Face Blindness: When Every Face Looks Like a Stranger

A new study reveals the exhausting reality behind developmental prosopagnosia and how society often overlooks it.

3,700 Hours with Wild Chimps Reveal Evolutionary Roots of Attachment

This study is about chimps. But in a way, it's also about us.

Just five minutes of junk food advertising are enough to get kids eating more calories

Junk food ads math: 5 minutes equals 130 more kilocalories per day.

Sexual Fantasies During Surgery Are a Disturbing Side Effect of Sedatives No One Talks About

Some anesthetics and sedatives may trigger vivid sexual fantasies — or hallucinations of assault

Nutrition expert says this less painful alternative to intermittent fasting works just as well

The study found that restricting carbs can elicit the same favourable metabolic effects as fasting.

Scientists Map the DNA of a Mysterious Creature Called the Asian Unicorn That No One’s Seen in Years

The saola’s newly sequenced genome offers hope for one of Earth’s rarest mammals.

A New AI Tool Can Recreate Your Face Using Nothing But Your DNA

New AI built by Chinese scientists can create 3D faces from DNA with alarming accuracy.

The Controversial TikTok Dentist Behind Viral 'Mewing' Craze Is Barred from Practice

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok in the last few years, chances are you’ve seen it. A handsome young person (usually a man), mouth closed, pressing his tongue to the roof of his mouth, claiming this one move can sculpt your jawline and change your life. This is “mewing,” and the man behind it—Dr. Michael Mew—has […]

People Living Near Golf Courses Face Double the Risk of Parkinson’s

The strong pesticides sprayed on golf courses leech into the groundwater and scientists suspect this could increase the risk of Parkinson's.

He Let Snakes Bite Him Over 200 Times and Now Scientists Want His Blood for an Universal Antivenom

A universal snakebite treatment may be within reach, thanks to an unlikely human experiment.

Miracle surgery: Doctors remove a hard-to-reach spinal tumor through the eye of a patient

For the first time, a deadly spinal tumor has been removed via the eye socket route.

The world is facing a rising dementia crisis. The worst is in China

As the world ages, high blood sugar has emerged as a leading risk factor in developing dementia.

What Your Emoji Use Really Says About You, According to Science

If you use a lot of emojis, you'll want to read this.

Your Brain Data May be Up For Sale and It's Totally Legal (For Now), Say U.S. Senators

Lawmakers warn brainwave data could expose mental health and be sold without consent.

6 Genetic Myths Still Taught in Schools (That Science Says Are Wrong)

Many traits we learn as 'genetic facts' are more folklore than fact.

No, RFK Jr, the MMR vaccine doesn’t contain ‘aborted fetus debris’

Jesus Christ.

Ronan the Sea Lion Can Keep a Beat Better Than You Can — and She Might Just Change What We Know About Music and the Brain

A rescued sea lion is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about rhythm and the brain

We Know Sugar Is Bad for Your Teeth. What About Artificial Sweeteners?

You’ve heard it a thousand times: sugar is terrible for your teeth. It really is. But are artificial sweeteners actually any better? The short answer? Yes—artificial sweeteners don’t feed the bacteria that cause cavities. But here’s the twist: many of the sugar-free products they’re used in can still damage your teeth in a different way—through […]

Want to make the perfect pasta? Physics finally has the answer

Cacio e pepe has just three ingredients, but mastering it is harder than it looks.

Giant Brain Study Took Seven Years to Test the Two Biggest Theories of Consciousness. Here's What Scientists Found

Both came up short but the search for human consciousness continues.

The Fat Around Your Thighs Might Be Affecting Your Mental Health

New research finds that where fat is stored—not just how much you have—might shape your mood.

Autism rates in the US just hit a record high of 1 in 31 children. Experts explain why it is happening

Autism rates show a steady increase but there is no simple explanation for a "supercomplex" reality.

Tooth loss is linked to cognitive decline, study in India shows

The connection between tooth loss and cognitive decline may surprise you.

Scientists Rediscover a Lost Piece of Female Anatomy That May Play a Crucial Role in Fertility

Scientists reexamine a forgotten structure near the ovary and discover surprising functions

Everyone else’s opinion is secretly changing yours (and that's huge for disinformation)

Public opinion may be swaying you a lot more than you think.

Magic Mushroom Use Is Soaring in the U.S. With More Americans Turning to Psilocybin Than Cocaine or Meth

Use is up across all age groups, with rising poison calls and shifting perceptions

Superbugs are the latest crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Researchers found an alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant infections among children.

What happens in your brain when your mind goes completely blank — neuroscientists say it's a distinct mental state

Mind blanking isn’t daydreaming. It's something more akin to meditation — but not quite the same.

This Surprising Protein Shift Could Add Years to Your Life, Study Finds

A global study ties plant protein to longer adult lives, but early life needs differ.

Scientists Just Found the Clearest Evidence Yet That Lucid Dreaming Is a Real State of Consciousness

People who are aware they are dreaming show distinct brain patterns.

Drug Regenerates Retina and Restores Vision in Blind Mice

A protein hidden in our eyes may be the reason we can't repair lost vison.

Scientists Invent a Color Humans Have Never Seen Before

Meet "olo": a vivid, hyper-saturated blue-green that can't be captured by screens or paint.

This Chewing Gum Can Destroy 95 Percent of Flu and Herpes Viruses

Viruses had enough fun in our mouths, it's time to wipe them out.

Here's why you should stop working out before bedtime

Even hours before bedtime, workouts can be a problem.

Some people are just wired to like music more, study shows

Most people enjoy music to some extent. But while some get goosebumps from their favorite song, others don’t really feel that much. A part of that is based on our culture. But according to one study, about half of it is written in our genes. In one of the largest twin studies on musical pleasure […]

Researchers analyzed 10,000 studies and found cannabis could actually fight cancer

Scientists used AI to scan a huge number of papers and found cannabis gets a vote of confidence from science.

She Can Smell Parkinson’s—Now Scientists Are Turning It Into a Skin Swab

A super-smeller's gift could lead to an early, non-invasive Parkinson's test.

Experts Say Autism Surge Is Driven By Better Screening. RFK Jr Desperately Wants It To Be Something Else

RFK Jr just declared war on decades of autism research—armed with no data, a debunked myth, and a deadline.

Could This Saliva Test Catch Deadly Prostate Cancer Early?

Researchers say new genetic test detects aggressive cancers that PSA and MRIs often miss

This Futuristic Laser Blood Test May Be the Key to Beating Cancer Early

Researchers use light pulses and AI to detect lung cancer with 81% accuracy

This Tokyo Lab Built a Machine That Grows Real Chicken Meat

A lab in Tokyo just grew a piece of chicken that not only looks like the real thing — it tastes like it too.

This Test Could Catch Heart Trouble Years Before It Strikes For Under $7

A cheap blood test can detect silent heart damage before a heart attack or stroke

Salt Gets All the Blame but the Real Fix for High Blood Pressure Might Be in Bananas and Spinach

Potassium can balance out the ill effects of sodium. But men and women react differently.

CT Scans Save Lives But Researchers Now Say They Could Also Be Behind 100,000 Future Cancer Cases

The benefits still outweigh the risks, but healthy people should stay away from full-body CT scans.

Scientists just made butter from air — and it's hitting the market

Savor has taken a science fiction concept into reality with its butter. And, apparently, it tastes the same.

Crows seem to understand geometry — and we thought only humans could

In a remarkable new study, crows demonstrated an intuitive grasp of geometry—identifying irregular shapes without training.

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