😴 8-hour lie 💪 Sweat for love 🤖 Running robots
We've been told for years to chase eight hours of sleep. Lies!
🧬 Cancer breakthrough 😤 Spite scrolling 🥤 Soda warning
A genuine end to cancer may be on the horizon.
🤐 Say less 🎓 Gifted, briefly 🙏 Just say thanks
The proverbial cat has, in fact, got our tongue. People are talking less.
🔮 Future you 🤖 Bot flop 😴 Dream tax
You hugely underestimate how much your personality will change over time.
🧬 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.
🧠 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.
🌶️ Spice on trial 👂 New inner ears 🤖 AI faces win
Is spicy food good or bad for you?
🧂 Salting the sky 💤 New sleep types 🤕 Icing is out
Scientists float a radical fix for a monster El Niño: change the weather itself.
🤖 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.
🍎 Nutritional "dark matter" 😴 #1 sleep exercise 🧬 Old 90s Babies
Scientists don't know what food is. Wait…what?
🏠 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...
😴 Fake sleep 🍟 Tipsy chipsy 🐕 Lefty pups
While you sleep, your brain runs maintenance: neurons reset, memories form, waste clears out.
📺 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 think you want.
❤️ 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 some role.
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!
🔥 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...maybe). A study published this week in Genom...
💊 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 household. Nay, all were CELEBRATED.
👃 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 friends left you at the town fair?! Well, a n...
🥤 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 news is that, after 20 years of no brea...
🐳 Orca war ☕ Coffee 2.0 💤 Sleep hack
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🍭 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 hot seat. (Note: you won't find either ...
👶 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 allow scientists to genetically modify eggs...
⚖️ 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 compound - semaglutide - which decreases ap...
👵🏻 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 level, we did know that a reduction in ou...