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New research shows that people do not age in a linear fashion, but rather the molecules that attribute to aging accelerate at major periods: age 44 and then again at 60.

Boat collision left Charlotte stranded at the surface and in danger of predation.

These marine mammals are still feeling the effects of whaling. For most species, it may be another 100 years before there are enough old whales for scientists to confirm their lifespans.

In July 2024, ByteDance’s Douyin app—the Chinese version of TikTok—introduced a system through which live streamers are ranked on a six-tier scale of ‘health points’ (健康分 jiankangfen), with the platform now deducting points if live streamers commit offences including unhealthy behaviour, misinformat...

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PFAS are made up of a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds, which make them difficult to break down.

Explore these tales of death, sacrifice, and bad omens—if you dare.

I’ve been deeply upset about an article going around about the UHC shooter, which suggests Luigi Mangioni was radicalized by pain. The article gives no evidence, and makes no convincing argument. It expects you to look at the negative space: because Luigi “had options”, and “could have been almost a...

The Syrian regime’s ouster unleashed a collective unmasking across the country and its vast diaspora.

The protests in Georgia point beyond a choice between Europe and Russia, rejecting both local authoritarian rule and foreign economic domination.

‘I’m getting good at dealing with these Chinese guys,’ Grace (a pseudonym, as are all other names of people and businesses in this essay) told me one day after joking around with a customer. Grace was one of two full-time Kenyan employees working the counter at Duck Express, a small takeaway Chinese...

In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a human body, it cannot engage or absolve human sins.

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and lopsided picture of the universe.

Once the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer couldn’t survey widely anymore, NASA scientists switched gears and began using the spacecraft for planetary defense.

Neuroscientists found that music cannot only influence your emotions in the present − it can also alter how you remember your memories.

How Circassians maintain connections despite being scattered across the world, whether there is a unified Circassian national movement, and what its goals are.

Replacing meat with legumes would reap huge health and climate benefits, says "the Legumati."

In a village close to a military site, residents report aerial vehicles hovering above their houses.