A nature prescription for loneliness was tested on 320 people in Barcelona. Loneliness fell, but the nature group did not beat the much simpler option.
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MIT’s Gum-Sized Robot Swims on Living Muscle. A Human Still Holds the Light.
MIT’s muscle-powered robot swims on living muscle cells with real force. But the maze run was not autonomous: a person moved the light over the dish by hand.
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Space Radiation Near the Moon: What Artemis I Found
Space radiation near the moon came in lower than expected. What Artemis I’s crystals and mannequins actually measured, and the shield nobody had to build.
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Gen Z Debt Help Requests Rose 31%. That’s Not Bad News.
Gen Z debt help requests rose 31% at one US counselling agency while average balances rose 10.5%. The number of people asking moved faster than the debt.
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Is It Lonely at the Top? The Gap Is Just 2 Points
Is it lonely at the top? Gallup’s 2025 data puts managers at 23% daily loneliness and everyone else at 21% – a two-point gap, and a better story underneath.
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Why the Heart Weakens in Space When Nothing Pushes Back
Why the heart weakens in space comes down to one thing: nothing pushes back. A 2026 study of a dozen astronauts found exercise reversed it within months.
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Thermal Invisibility Cloak: The One Thing It Can’t Hide
A thermal invisibility cloak now works in 3D from any direction. It steers heat around an object, but it still cannot hide anything that makes its own heat.
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What Is Mirror Life? The Alarm Came Before the Fire
What is mirror life? It does not exist yet, and may never. Scientists have already designed the test that would catch it, and that order is the real story.
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Two Drinks a Day: What That 1-in-25 Risk Actually Means
Two drinks a day is linked to a 1-in-25 lifetime risk of alcohol-related death. What that number covers, what it cannot see, and what a drink really is.
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Blood Samples Showed IBD 10 Years Before Diagnosis
Researchers found signs of IBD 10 years before diagnosis in frozen blood samples. The strangest part is that antibody diversity was lower, not higher.