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6 Ayurvedic Herbs With Real Clinical Evidence: Ashwagandha, Turmeric, and More

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)The most clinically studied adaptogen in the Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia, ashwagandha has accumulated enough trial data to move beyond wellness-counter claims. A 2019 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published in Medicine found that 240 mg of standardised ashwagandha root extract daily reduced serum cortisol by 23% over 60 days. Participants…

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What Intermittent Fasting Does to Your Body in 30 Days: 8 Changes Worth Knowing

1. Your insulin levels drop, and stay lowerWithin the first few days of intermittent fasting, blood insulin levels fall. This matters because chronically elevated insulin, common in people eating three meals plus snacks across a 14-to-16-hour window, blocks fat burning and drives fat storage. A 2019 study published in Cell…

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From Newfoundland Fishing Boats to Indian Homes: Why the Labrador Retriever Is the World's Most Popular Dog Breed

The Dog That Started on a Fishing BoatThe Labrador retriever's earliest ancestor was not bred to sit in a living room. The St. John's Water Dog, a working breed from the island of Newfoundland in what is now Canada, spent its days hauling fish-laden nets from the North Atlantic alongside…

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How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, including the magnitude 5.8 Cairo earthquake in 1992, which dislodged some of the pyramid’s outer casing stones. Yet the main body remained essentially intact.

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A quiet Alaska fault is missing the fluids scientists expected – and it’s changing what we know about earthquake zones

Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time.

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Social media is shrinking our attention spans, but video games may be the surprising antidote

Social media has been blamed for eroding attention spans, but video games may offer a counterbalance by training focus, rewarding persistence, and encouraging deep engagement.

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Record-breaking Amazon fires triggered as much CO₂ as an entire country last year

Fires in the Amazon Rainforest have surged to record-breaking levels, highlighting the region’s ‘growing ecological fragility'.

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See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple.

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Can music be good company? Research shows it makes our imagination more social

Earlier this year, we asked a group of older adults what music they listened to when feeling lonely, and why. We discovered music was a powerful coping mechanism and source of escapism.

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Heat adaptation: Why training in hot conditions, especially indoors, can boost your fitness

And why have pro cyclists been seen wearing painters' coveralls on the indoor trainer?

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Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, the tools have now been dated by a team of archaeologists, geologists, chronologists (including me) and paleontologists.

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2-million-year-old pitted teeth from our ancient relatives reveal secrets about human evolution

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you’d think about the relationships between our fossil ancestors and relatives.

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Wildfire smoke and extreme heat can occur together: Preparing for the combined health effects of a hot, smoky future

In recent years, Canadians have been subjected to both severe wildfire smoke and extreme heat events, as evidenced by the record-breaking 2023 wildfire season and the 2021 heat dome. Western Canada in particular has a long history of wildfires and heat waves, and with climate change, communities have experienced an…

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From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb telescope has found in just 3 years

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space.

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4,000-year-old bones reveal 'unprecedented' violence — tongue removal, cannibalism and evisceration in Bronze Age Britain

The extremely violent treatment of the corpses of at least 37 Bronze Age people is rewriting the history of prehistoric Britain.

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Predatory birds from the Jurassic may have driven cicada evolution for millions of years

Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

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