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Telegraph operators in the northeastern United States reported something really weird on a clear night in September 1859: their equipment was producing sparks, catching fire, and…
If you spend enough time in any nutrition counseling office, you will hear the same conversation—in various voices—with the same subdued irritation. While a friend who…
When you walk into any gym at six in the morning, you can usually see them: the people who are working harder than anyone else but…
When you witness a cuttlefish vanish for the first time, your brain is unable to comprehend what your eyes have just witnessed. An animal’s fins ripple…
Fat was viewed as a sort of biological error for the majority of the previous century. Something to be measured, reprimanded, and removed. Then, in the…
If you look closely, you can see when a technology transitions from being a novelty to infrastructure. It was the moment of electricity. Sometime in the…
A 2002 lab video has a moment that is worth watching. In front of a thin plastic tube is a crow, a lone bird called Betty…
When the demographic projections are finally displayed on the screen during government budget meetings, a certain silence descends. Don’t panic. Not a dispute. Just the gradual…
Ironically, the medication that is currently causing the greatest scientific interest in human longevity has been kept in medicine cabinets since 1958. Metformin is a cheap,…
When you visit any pharmacy in January, you’ll notice that the shelves are only partially filled with meal replacement shakes, that protein bars are piled up…