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Is Fake Sugar Bad for Brains?

Sweet additives like saccharin and aspartame might fast-track cognitive decline

September 22, 2025

Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future

Diseases that cause suffocation, paralysis, and childhood death are poised to come surging back

September 5, 2025

How to Run Across Death Valley in the Summer

Learning how to cope with heatwaves, from an ultrarunner

Heart Attacks in Space

Effective CPR is hard when both patient and rescuer are floating

August 28, 2025

A Brief History of mRNA Vaccines

When vaccine research funding is cut, people will die

August 8, 2025

How to Grow Human Bones

Coral plays a surprising role in modern bone grafts

July 29, 2025

The “We Evolved to Eat Meat” Argument Doesn’t Hold Up

The evolutionary story behind meat consumption is less convincing than it sounds

July 21, 2025

Longevity Might Be All In Your Head

The biological age of your organs could predict your health—and death

July 9, 2025

Sleep Has No Magic Number

People who sleep according to their culture’s norms are healthier overall

June 18, 2025

How To Tell If You’re Dead

The line between life and death has never been clear—and modern technology blurs it further

June 16, 2025

Worm-Inspired Treatments Inch Toward the Clinic

Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes

June 9, 2025

It’s the Secret Doctors Keep from You

Two physicians get frank about uncertainty in medicine

May 21, 2025