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Waking at 3 a.m. with a racing mind? Cortisol's early-morning rise and lighter second-half sleep explain most of it — the liver-glycogen story is only a

Ayurveda's vamkukshi advises resting on the left side after meals. Modern reflux studies back the left-side habit, but the heart and lymph claims don't hold up.

Brain organoids, a six-million-person genetics map, LSD-derived MM120 for anxiety, and an SGK1 trauma pathway: what neuroscience actually found about mental

Why simulation theory went from Bostrom's 2003 paper and Musk's 'one in billions' to a hypothesis physicists take seriously — and why it may be unfalsifiable.

A study of 40,000 Germans found that over-optimistic forecasts of future happiness predicted a 10% higher risk of death within a decade.

A PNAS study by Oskar Burger and colleagues found that most of humanity's longevity gains happened in just the last century — 72 really is the new 30.

A 2013 study found sex differences in the brain protein Foxp2 — but the real story was subtler, and nearly the opposite of the 'women talk more' headlines.

On October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner fell 24 miles from the edge of space at Mach 1.25 — the first human to break the sound barrier in freefall.

Fabiola Mann, 15, of Harrow-on-the-Hill scored 162 on the 2012 Mensa IQ test — two points above Einstein and Hawking — and hoped to study medicine at Cambridge.

New Zealand scientists used RNA interference to create a GM cow whose milk has almost no beta-lactoglobulin — the protein behind many childhood milk allergies.

A Dutch brain-imaging study found that seeing a celebrity endorse shoes lights up the medial orbitofrontal cortex — the persuasiveness of fame itself, not

On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson — the missing piece of the Standard Model, theorized in 1964.

Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.

Researchers began building riot-prediction models from social media and economic data in 2012 — and civil-liberties advocates immediately raised alarms.

In a 2012 Science study, six Guinea baboons learned to distinguish correctly spelled four-letter words from nonwords — no speech required.

Rensselaer researchers found that once 10% of a population holds an unshakable belief, the majority follows. The finding came from network science, not

NASA announced bacteria that may substitute arsenic for phosphorus — even in DNA. On the extraordinary claim, the instant skepticism, and what came after.