Why do I laugh in serious situations? Nervous laughter is usually stress, not coldness. What Milgram and a grief study found, and how to calm it in the moment.
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What to Say to Someone Who Is Dying: It’s Not a Speech
What to say to someone who is dying? Hospice workers say it is rarely a speech. The four sentences that matter, and why hearing may last to the very end.
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The Ozempic Side Effects Found in 400,000 Reddit Posts
Ozempic side effects the trials missed? AI read 410,198 Reddit posts and found chills, hot flashes and cycle changes. What it means, and what it cannot prove.
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Inflammation Off Switch: Pain Eased Before the Swelling Did
Scientists found an inflammation off switch in people. Pain cleared faster, yet the redness and swelling looked the same. What it means, and what it doesn’t.
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Prescribing Cascade: When a Side Effect Gets Its Own Pill
A prescribing cascade is when a drug side effect is mistaken for a new illness and treated with another drug. A new study mapped 24. Here is how to spot one.
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Night Owls and Loneliness: It’s Not the Late Hour
New research on night owls and loneliness found the late hour is not the real cost. Being awake on a schedule nobody else keeps is the bigger problem.
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The Earliest Evidence of Drug Use Is 25,000 Years Old. It May Have Started With a Toothache.
The earliest evidence of drug use is in 25,000-year-old teeth from Sulawesi. Researchers think it began as toothache relief that slowly made the pain worse.
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Sleeping With the Light On May Reshape Your Heart
Sleeping with the light on, even dimly, was linked to thicker, stiffer hearts in a study of 11,071 people. What it found, what it can’t prove, and what helps.
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Autism Life Expectancy: A 14-Year Gap, Much of It Avoidable
Autism life expectancy was 64.9 years in a new study of 2 million people, nearly 14 years under the US average. Much of the gap has causes we can prevent.
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Why Do I Talk to Myself? Try Saying ‘You’ Instead of ‘I’
Why do I talk to myself? It’s normal, and often useful. Research shows it works best when you say ‘you’ instead of ‘I’. Here’s how to do it, and why it helps.