Aug 16, 2026
🤐 Say less 🎓 Gifted, briefly 🙏 Just say thanks
The proverbial cat has, in fact, got our tongue. People are talking less.
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Aug 09, 2026
🔮 Future you 🤖 Bot flop 😴 Dream tax
You hugely underestimate how much your personality will change over time.
Aug 04, 2026
🧬 156-year-olds 🙄 Trusty eyes 💨 Why we sigh
Researchers modeled aging to find how long we could live if able to contain somatic mutations - DNA errors that accumulate over life.
Jul 27, 2026
🧠 Great minds think worse 🎬 Reel money 🦵 Joint venture
Researchers at Nanyang Tech U in Singapore tested whether two people whose brains fall into sync while working together generate better results.
Jul 20, 2026
🌶️ Spice on trial 👂 New inner ears 🤖 AI faces win
Is spicy food good or bad for you?
Jul 19, 2026
🧂 Salting the sky 💤 New sleep types 🤕 Icing is out
Scientists float a radical fix for a monster El Niño: change the weather itself.
Jul 07, 2026
🤖 Best friend bot 🐠 Fish oil flop ☕ "Coffee liver"
First AI wrote college essays. Then it provided medical advice. Now it's providing a digital shoulder to cry on.
Jul 05, 2026
🍎 Nutritional "dark matter" 😴 #1 sleep exercise 🧬 Old 90s Babies
Scientists don't know what food is. Wait…what?
Jun 26, 2026
🏠 WFH loneliness 💪 Regrowing Limbs 🎓 Perfectionism boom
Work-from-home, up 4X since 2019, is often framed as a wellness upgrade. No commute, no fluorescent lights, no stodgy suit? Lessgo! Not so fast...
Jun 15, 2026
😴 Fake sleep 🍟 Tipsy chipsy 🐕 Lefty pups
While you sleep, your brain runs maintenance: neurons reset, memories form, waste clears out.
Jun 07, 2026
📺 Are you boring? 🧽 Sponge drama 🍊 Citrus hack
Everything on screens is now rooted in algorithms. Shows, social media posts, videos – the platforms behind them are desperate to serve you exactly what they...
Jun 01, 2026
❤️ End of heart disease? 🍇 Grapes = Sunblock 🚘 Gas hack
Heart disease is the #1 global killer and while cholesterol's precise role is debated, most agree LDL cholesterol - a.k.a. "bad cholesterol" - plays at least...
May 26, 2026
IQNEWS IS BACK!
Wanna stress-test a bizarre belief of yours?! Ask a chatbot. It'll wholeheartedly agree (can bots be wholehearted?) and assure you it isn't bizarre at all!
Dec 15, 2023
🔥 Modern Neanderthals 🐈 Cat parasite 🤝 Meeting hack
You know how Ben Franklin was obsessed with the "early to bed, early to rise" thing? Turns out, that was just Ben's Neanderthal DNA talking. (Kidding...mayb...
Sep 15, 2023
💊 Bad decongestants 😳 Laxative boom ⏰ "Bad day" hack
I've consumed $50 of decongestants every time I got a cold since I was licking sidewalks as a small child. Benadryl, Mucinex, Nyquil - all were welcome in my...
Aug 11, 2023
👃 Sleep smelling 🍺 Booze newz 🛑 H.A.L.T. method
Ya know how you sometimes smell something and are transported to a powerful memory? Like cotton candy and that time you uncontrollably sobbed when your frien...
Jul 21, 2023
🥤 Diet Coke drama ❤️ Tinder study 🤖 Dumb AI?
Over six million Americans live with Alzheimer's. It's the seventh leading cause of death and one-in-nine people suffer from it past the age of 65. The good...
Jun 23, 2023
🐳 Orca war ☕ Coffee 2.0 💤 Sleep hack
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Jun 02, 2023
🍭 Artificial not-so-sweetener 👵 Pain cure? 💤 Boredom hack
In February, new research generated widespread concern over the zero-sugar sweetener erythritol. This week, the equally popular sweetener sucralose is in the...
May 12, 2023
👶 3-parent babies ☀️ Super sunscreen 🔒 Privacy hack
For the first time in history, a group of babies was born with three sets of DNA each. It happened in the U.K., which in 2015 became the first country to all...
May 05, 2023
⚖️ Weight loss drug boom 🛌 No-mo nightmares ☕ Coffee hack
By now, you've almost certainly heard of Ozempic and/or Wegovy - two weight loss drugs that have taken America by storm. Both are trademarks for the same com...
Apr 21, 2023
👵🏻 Why hair turns gray 🛌 Sleeping pill discovery 🗣️ Argument hack
Gray hair is an I'm-sure-scientists-know-why-this-happens-but-I'll-never-look-it-up topic. Well, turns out scientists DIDN'T know...until today. At a high l...
Apr 07, 2023
🧠 Memory illusions 🤖 A.I. love 🤥 Spotting a liar
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Mar 31, 2023
👵 Oldest person ever 🌵 Screaming plants 🥞 Pancake hack
Human life expectancy has been rising for decades in most countries, yet the record for the longest-lived person hasn't budged in 26 years. Jeanne Calment pa...
