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In 2014, researchers placed exercise wheels in two natural outdoor settings and left them there. Wild mice found the wheels and ran on them, sometimes for

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Street trees reduce urban heat. That much is established. What’s less settled is whether they’re enough on their own, or whether the way a city p...

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Zebra striping, the practice of alternating each alcoholic drink with a non-alcoholic one, is catching on: 34 percent of UK adults reported trying it in 2025. The strategy does help. Just not quite in the way people thin...

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In a 500-patient trial at American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago, a daily pill called daraxon...

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Something happens when you follow a physical book with its audiobook running in your ears at the same time. The distractions fall away, and you’re inside the story. The technique has a name now: