“Eat less to live longer” might be a good rule of thumb, but it’s horrible in practice. While animals living in laboratories may enjoy longer lives on calorie-restricted diets, humans living in the ...

You’ve probably heard it your entire adult life—building lean muscle mass is one of the best things you can do for your health. After all, in addition to boosting physical strength and burning ...

Of course, not all loneliness is the same. The researchers distinguished between the students who experienced emotional ...

It’s been more than 40 years since the core meltdown of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor in what’s now Ukraine. Yet, its ...

Perhaps you have heard the story of the Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a total stranger at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941. When Nazi guards selected ten prisoners ...

Air pollution causes a whole host of health problems. Obviously it exacerbates respiratory illnesses like asthma and bronchitis, but it’s also been implicated in increasing the risk of other ...

If you’re someone who likes to read the ingredients on food labels, lecithin may be familiar to you. Usually derived from soy or eggs, it’s a fatty substance that’s commonly used as an emulsifying ...

When a whale dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, its carcass becomes a banquet for smaller marine organisms, supplying food for decades. It’s a perfect example of the circle of life—and also a ...

Are you tired of AI doomsaying? Whether it’s AI researchers and CEOs warning that AI may kill us all (but only after vaporising most of the good jobs), or critics saying that AI will drive us over a ...

Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into the rock records of Earth’s past discovered on several continents in the 1870s. They dubbed ...