Ultra-processed food and kids: a 46-child USC study found the brain area that lit up handles wanting, not enjoying. What it shows, what it cannot, and what helps.
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Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Mean 2 Billion Dark School Mornings a Year
Permanent daylight saving time would add over 2 billion dark school mornings a year, a new study finds. What it means, the 1974 lesson, and what parents can do.
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Acorns and Lyme Disease: Why Mice, Not Deer, Set the Risk
Acorns and Lyme disease are linked by mice, not deer, a 35-year New York study found. A heavy acorn autumn means more ticks two summers later. What to watch.
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Slow Waves and Memory: Why Waves That Travel Alone Forget
Slow waves and memory: a new sleep study found deep-sleep brain waves that travel alone go with weaker overnight recall. What it shows, what it can’t yet say.
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Alzheimer’s Blood Test: Would You Want to Know?
An Alzheimer’s blood test can now estimate your risk a decade early. What the study actually found, and what happens to the people who get told the number.
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Why Chronic Back Pain Feels Like Part of Who You Are
Chronic back pain can feel like it took over who you are. Brain scans of 114 people found a real flare switches ON the network that builds your sense of self.
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Aging Muscle Repair: The Signal Was Jammed, Not Gone
Aging muscle repair may not slow because the repair signal runs out. A study found it is still sent, just chemically jammed – and a compound doubled its grip.
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Phage Therapy Is Older Than Antibiotics. It’s Coming Back.
Phage therapy uses viruses that kill one bacterium and leave the rest alone. The first global guidelines just landed — and the idea predates antibiotics.
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Betelgeuse Companion Star: The Hidden Star Named Siwarha
Betelgeuse companion star: new radio data suggest a hidden star named Siwarha has been stirring the giant’s atmosphere for years. No one has seen it clearly.
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Hubble Reboost: NASA Asks Industry to Lift a Telescope That Cannot Lift Itself
A Hubble reboost is NASA’s new question to industry: can anyone lift a telescope that has no engine and has been sinking for decades? Here is what it asks.