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Palmer Luckey wants oxytocin used in marriage counselling. The longest controlled dosing in couples ran seven days, and measured wound healing.

Palmer Luckey wants oxytocin used in marriage coun...

Palmer Luckey says he'd end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping. But no trial has ever measu...
On 21 November 2016 a gust front crossed Melbourne and hospitals recorded 476 excess asthma admissions in 30 hours. Ten people died in the epidemic. Of the emergency patients surveyed, 28% had current doctor diagnosed asthma and 87% had hay fever.

On 21 November 2016 a gust front crossed Melbourne...

Only 28% of the emergency patients surveyed after Melbourne's 2016 thunderstorm asthma epidemic had ...
In 1948, many doctors thought normal blood pressure was 100 plus your age. A study of 5,209 people in one Massachusetts town changed that

In 1948, many doctors thought normal blood pressur...

In 1911 a life insurance doctor was already sorting blood pressure readings by age. Decades later ma...
When researchers counted 3,612 hectares of restored eelgrass in Virginia’s seaside lagoons in 2018, the plots sown by hand came to only 6 percent of that area. The meadow has since grown to 4,792 hectares, about 11,800 acres.

When researchers counted 3,612 hectares of restore...

The eelgrass meadow seeded back into Virginia's seaside bays now covers 4,792 hectares and keeps spr...
Doctors long assumed bed rest would help back pain heal faster, but when researchers actually measured recovery times, patients told to stay active recovered faster than those told to lie down

Doctors long assumed bed rest would help back pain...

A 1995 Finnish trial randomly assigned 186 people with a recent bout of low back pain to two days of...
Across 20 corn farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Minnesota, the regenerative fields yielded 29 percent less grain, and the 2018 paper states the profit gain three ways: 78 percent, 70 percent, nearly twice.

Across 20 corn farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, No...

A 2018 study of 20 corn farms in the northern United States found regenerative fields grew 29 percen...
Quantum Measurement, Information, and Time

Quantum Measurement, Information, and Time

Does time flow backward at the quantum level, and if so, what stops the universe from running in rev...
The Oliphant Farm outside Laurel, Delaware, hosted the state’s 29th round of agricultural easement selections in October 2025 — more than 100 acres that have produced corn and soybeans for five generations of the same family, with the oldest building on the property dating to the 1880s

The Oliphant Farm outside Laurel, Delaware, hosted...

Delaware's 29th round of agricultural easement selections, announced at the Oliphant Farm outside La...
Of shark, ray and chimaera species on the IUCN Red List, more than one in three is now threatened with extinction

Of shark, ray and chimaera species on the IUCN Red...

Of 547 elasmobranch species assessed on the IUCN Red List, at least one in five is threatened with e...
At the surface of the Sun, sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth, but its energy spent an estimated 100,000 years diffusing outward through the Sun’s dense radiative zone before it escaped — meaning the energy warming your skin this afternoon was generated in the core when Neanderthals were still walking Europe

At the surface of the Sun, sunlight takes about 8 ...

The sunlight on your skin left the Sun's surface eight minutes ago, but the energy it carries spent ...
In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment, nine drops have fallen and no human has ever seen one land

In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch ...

The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dripped nine times, ...
The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found tangled on North Sea beaches, can stretch to more than 55 metres (longer than a blue whale), making it arguably the longest animal on Earth, and its skin secretes a neurotoxin that killed cockroaches and crabs after laboratory injection

The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found t...

A 55-metre specimen stranded on a Scottish beach in 1864 made the bootlace worm a contender for the ...
The Eighth Circuit ruled that when a pipeline company exercises federal eminent domain power, federal law displaces North Dakota’s statute requiring reimbursement of a landowner’s attorney fees — a reversal of the trial court that the Supreme Court has now agreed to review

The Eighth Circuit ruled that when a pipeline comp...

The Supreme Court has agreed to review an Eighth Circuit ruling that federal law displaces North Dak...
In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre climbed into a glacier cave in the Alps with no clock and no sunlight and stayed for two months, and when his team called him up on 14 September he insisted it was still 20 August, some of the earliest evidence that human circadian rhythm drifts free of any external cue

In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre climbed in...

In the summer of 1962, a 23-year-old French geologist spent 63 days alone in a glacier cave with no ...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation

Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fi...

Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about p...
In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a body sticking out of the melting ice and assumed it was a recent climber, but the corpse turned out to be a 5,300-year-old man with an arrowhead in his shoulder, 61 tattoos, and a 99.7%-pure copper axe whose metal was traced to southern Tuscany, revealing long-distance Copper Age connections

In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a bod...

The 5,300-year-old man found in an Alpine glacier in 1991 carried a copper axe traced to Tuscany, 61...
When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded soldiers in a Tübingen laboratory in 1869, he called it nuclein and had no idea he had just held the first purified sample of DNA, seventy-four years before Avery would show it carried the code of life

When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phospho...

In 1869, Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher isolated a phosphorus-rich substance from pus-soaked banda...
Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago along the Mediterranean coast are stronger now than the day they were poured, because seawater seeping into the volcanic ash mix triggers the slow growth of a rare crystal called aluminous tobermorite that welds new cracks shut

Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago ...

Roman piers along the Mediterranean have stood for two thousand years while modern reinforced concre...

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