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In a 92-country survey of nearly 54,000 people, well-being kept rising with income with no clear point where more money stopped helping, but the lead researcher says each step up the ladder buys a little less
A doctor cracked one hand’s knuckles for 50 years. Neither hand got arthritis.
Sewer crews in French colonial Hanoi killed 20,114 rats on 12 June 1902 alone, so the city paid a bounty per tail, and an official later found villagers breeding rats outside town to cash in
Time spent close to a cat tracked positive mood, not the years of ownership, in a one month Kyoto University study of 29 cats and 19 owners that used Bluetooth beacons on collars, published in iScience.
When Florida released eight Burmese pythons in 1992 for a university tracking study, the snakes were meant to stay in a fenced area, but Hurricane Andrew hit weeks later and destroyed the enclosure, and today tens of thousands of their descendants occupy the Everglades
Sleeping mice cleared amyloid twice as fast as awake ones in a 2013 Rochester study, while a 2024 Imperial College London team found brain dye clearance about a quarter lower in sleeping mice
In Boca Raton, Florida, 15-year-old Hannah Herbst built a roughly $12 ocean-current energy probe with a 3D-printed propeller, lit LEDs in Intracoastal tests, and won $25,000 as America’s Top Young Scientist in 2015
Palmer Luckey wants oxytocin used in marriage counselling. The longest controlled dosing in couples ran seven days, and measured wound healing.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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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
Of shark, ray and chimaera species on the IUCN Red List, more than one in three is now threatened with extinction
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

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