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“If 90% of children had ADHD and only 10% of children could sit still at a desk, how would we design school?”
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Scientists found a way to revert pain in mice using gene therapy. Perhaps the same technique could be applied to humans.
How can the law keep up with new genetic technology?
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
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The US reduced smoking rates from 50% to 15% with a simple habit hack.
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Practice doesn’t actually make perfect. Here’s the willpower equation necessary for elite athletes and musicians.
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How to unlock your brain’s natural antidepressants.
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There’s a psychological reason you haven’t created healthier habits in your life.
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Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.
Will nature or nurture win out?
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football…
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
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Drugs that stifle acute inflammation may prevent the body from healing properly.
Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak.
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Thanks to genetic clues, scientists discovered that an old stroke therapy that had abandoned for decades might just work.
It’s the clitoris, stupid!
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.
The same technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines may enable the first damage-reversing heart attack cure.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Can electrical stimulation meaningfully substitute for natural touch during a complex task in the real world? We think so.
Bruce Willis has announced he is stepping away from acting.
A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
Older adults who napped at least once or for more than an hour a day had a 40% higher chance of developing Alzheimer’s than those who napped less.