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New reporting reveals that the teen sleep crisis is driven far more by early school start times and biological circadian shifts than by screens — and…
A new machine learning study reveals ADHD is not a single condition — brain scans identify two structurally distinct subtypes with opposing gray matt…
Neuroscientists studying 'super agers' found that genetics didn't explain why some brains keep producing new neurons into the 80s. What did explain i…
Neuroscientists studying 'super agers' — people over 80 with the memory of someone decades younger — keep finding the same surprising pattern: their…
A major study of over 103,000 people found that eating after 8 p.m. significantly raises cardiovascular risk — and the biological reasons reveal that…
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2023, included here for context and accuracy. To learn more about our edito…
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2010, included here for context and accuracy. To learn more about our edito…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The feeling arrives like clockwork. Around 4 PM on Sunday, someti…
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