Oct 24, 2026
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The cells that pick up sound never grow back. A Boston team followed women for 18 years to see if dinner made a difference.
Oct 23, 2026
It began as a hunt for the causes of skin cancer. Two decades on, the women who kept out of the light were the ones who died sooner.
Oct 22, 2026
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In a Nebraska lab, the plain broth fell flat. Then Grandma’s onions, parsnips, and turnips hit the water.
Oct 21, 2026
An old scholar in Naples set the fruit beside a set of teeth. Four centuries later, two dental teams put his hunch to the test.
Oct 20, 2026
Genesis says a hungry man traded his birthright for a bowl of red stew. A team in Bozeman served the same seed at lunch and checked the blood.
Oct 17, 2026
Doctors told people with gut pouches to stay away from it. A Seattle team followed 47,228 men for 18 years and found the opposite.
Oct 16, 2026
An English minister worked out how to make sparkling water in 1772. A long study of 25,000 adults shows why the plain version still matters.
Oct 15, 2026
A French lab in 1806, a second lab in Atlanta, and a cheap spear that beat every vegetable they tested.
Oct 14, 2026
Two small British studies tied the scent of a common kitchen herb to sharper test scores. Here is what they found, and what they never tested.
Oct 13, 2026
A medical student in Geneva first saw the yogurt germs in 1905. A gut lab in Minnesota later caught them on the job.
Oct 10, 2026
A couple once drove a car full of lab rats across the country to prove that food builds the seal on your skin.
Oct 9, 2026
A month of sensors in a Texas test home points to three free kitchen habits. None of them needs a filter or a new stove.
Oct 8, 2026
A fur trader learned the trick from Inuit fishermen. Two university labs later measured what the cold keeps.
Oct 7, 2026
The old salve went on the eyelid. Modern trials swallowed the same flower in a daily capsule, then wired up the eye to see what changed.
Oct 6, 2026
An Italian doctor named them in 1882. More than a century later, a lab in Norway fed people kiwis and watched those same cells clump less.
Oct 3, 2026
The team behind a stone pill swapped it for juice. One fruit raised the guard your urine needs, and it wasn't the tart one.
Oct 2, 2026
A California professor asked people to count their blessings. A quarter century later, a test in 34 countries found a stronger way to say it.
Oct 1, 2026
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A Swiss lab fed rats onions and watched their bones hold on. Then 1,468 women in Australia leaned the same way over 14 years.
Sep 30, 2026
Two big studies, more than 300,000 people, checked if the old name holds up. It mostly does, with one catch in the jar.
Sep 29, 2026
A town in Texas built him a statue in 1937. Now a team in Australia has followed 3,759 people for 12 years — and the leaf tracked with stronger legs.
Sep 26, 2026
Doctors spent years hunting a valve they could not see. Then 48,868 women pointed to the fall fruit bin.
Sep 25, 2026
A woman in Quebec lost almost every kind of touch. The one thing she could still feel showed scientists what a hand on the arm is for.
Sep 24, 2026
A woodcutter's trick from 900 years ago, a blood study in Florida, and the one cooking rule the package never mentions.
Sep 23, 2026
The knobs are even called fingers. A Danish team pooled five trials to see if the old shape rule holds up.
Sep 22, 2026
The thermostat in your head lost its wide setting — and a flock of sheep in Western Australia pointed at the bean that may help nudge it back.
