Medical Research & Innovations

A daily vitamin C pill did not slow a blood condition that can turn into leukemia, but people who took it were more likely to be alive three years later

Some older adults are told their blood counts show early warning signs of leukemia, and that the only option is to wait and watch. These patients also tend…

Oct 28, 2026 · 4 min read

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Scientists found that a tiny jumping spider sleeps in two stages, and one of them looks a lot like the stage where humans dream

Portia fimbriata is an Australian jumping spider about the size of a coin, and an unusually clever hunter that lures…

3 min read · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Scientists compared 83,000 Danish twins and their spouses to see who shared the risk of severe COVID, and it was not the twin

Some people barely noticed COVID-19 while others ended up in hospital, and scientists have long asked how much of that…

3 min read · International Journal of Epidemiology

Scientists analyzed billions of words and found human language is not mainly organized around emotion, but around one survival instinct

Since the 1950s, scientists have described the meaning of words mostly in terms of feeling: is a word pleasant or…

4 min read · Science Advances

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Coffee calories in America have jumped nearly 40% in 15 years even though people drink the same amount, and sugar isn’t the main reason

Americans drink about the same amount of coffee today as they did twenty years ago, roughly 13 ounces a day. But researchers at Tufts University noticed something had…

Oct 24 · 3 min read

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Kids who got two extra lessons a week on feelings and friendship in preschool were less lonely and less depressed at 21, a randomized trial found

Oct 20 · 4 min read · American Psychologist

Scientists found that couples who hate the same bands reported stronger feelings of love, and similar personalities didn’t explain it

Oct 19 · 4 min read · Social Psychological and Personality Science

A study of 2,316 burials spanning 6,000 years in China found that inequality became entrenched long before the first states existed. Farming, the usual suspect, did not explain it.

Oct 18 · 4 min read · Science Advances

Scientists analyzed 38,467 songs released from 1947 to 2024 and found that lyrics have steadily lost their feelings, except for one emotion that kept growing

Oct 17 · 4 min read · Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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A study of 421,402 people found that those taking cholesterol-lowering statins were 15% less likely to develop glaucoma. Among people who already had it, the bigger difference was in who needed surgery.

Oct 16 · 4 min read · British Journal of Ophthalmology

A study of 747 Norwegian children found that their own screen time was mostly not linked to slower vocabulary growth from age 5 to 7. The screen that mattered belonged to someone else.

Oct 14 · 4 min read · JAMA Pediatrics

A randomized trial of 16,683 college students found that collecting phones at the start of class raised grades, most of all for struggling students. The bigger surprise was how students felt about it afterward.

Oct 12 · 4 min read · Science

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Scientists found that both unusually low and unusually high hemoglobin on a routine blood test were linked to higher dementia risk over the next 15 years

Oct 11 · 4 min read · Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

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A study of 4,523 people with dementia found that those who were overweight or obese at diagnosis had a lower risk of dying than people of normal weight. The usual statistical explanations for this paradox did not hold up.

Oct 10 · 4 min read · Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

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