Science

Matching your workouts to your personality could make exercising more enjoyable and give you better results

Finding motivation to exercise can be the greatest challenge in working out. This might be part of the reason why…

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Tiny quantum drumhead sends sound with 1-in-a-million loss—poised to rewrite tech

When a drummer plays a drum, she sets the drumhead into vibration by hitting it. The vibration contains a signal…

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Breakthrough battery lets physicists reverse entanglement—and rewrite quantum law

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team…

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Whispers in the womb: How cells “hear” to shape the human body

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions. Thousands of cells…

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Scientists’ top 10 bee-magnet blooms—turn any lawn into a pollinator paradise

Botanists from the University of Copenhagen and the UK set out to find the best flower combinations for bees and…

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Study finds tummy-tuck patients still shedding pounds five years later

Most patients undergoing "tummy tuck" surgery (abdominoplasty) to remove excess skin and tissue after weight loss continue to lose weight…

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Multisensory VR forest reboots your brain and lifts mood—study confirms

In Japan, Shinrin Yoku or forest bathing has already been used for therapeutic applications, for instance, to lower blood pressure…

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Cough medicine turned brain protector? Ambroxol may slow Parkinson’s dementia

Dementia poses a major health challenge with no safe, affordable treatments to slow its progression. Researchers at Lawson Research Institute…

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Can one vanishing particle shatter string theory — and explain dark matter?

Researchers from Penn and Arizona State University pinpoint a lone five-particle package (a 5-plet) that could upend string theory by…

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Frozen light switches: How Arctic microbes could revolutionize neuroscience

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold groundwater in…

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