The slow breath changing hearts: inside HRV’s quiet revolution
In a quiet room a phone timer glows, a soft tone marks five seconds in and five seconds out. On…
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What Your Brain Smells Before You Know You Like It
The instant you catch a whiff of coffee or smoke, your body is already making moves your mind has not…
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Inside a seven-day fast, the body rewires itself
The hardest part comes on day three. Hunger has ebbed and returned in waves, the fridge has become a study…
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Noah, Gilgamesh, and the Black Sea: Tracing a Flood’s Origins
Thirty miles north of Istanbul, the Bosporus narrows to a mile-wide strait where salt water runs like a river between…
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Study ties inflammatory diets to faster brain aging in seniors
Your brain may be older than your birth certificate suggests, and what sits on your plate could be part of…
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Why a Hard Potato Turns Tender and Fluffy in Heat
When the timer dings, the russet that knocked like a stone now yields to a fork as if it is…
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The Forgotten Diabetes Shaped by Childhood Hunger, Not Genes
In clinics from southern India to parts of East and Central Africa, physicians still encounter a familiar, uneasy picture. A…
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How Colonial Kinshasa Set the Stage for HIV’s Rise
The riverboat eased into Leopoldville at dusk, its whistle mixing with cicada drone and the clatter of freight. On the…
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Inside the new UPF warning and definition wars
On a recent morning in São Paulo, a school cafeteria worker lifted a lid to reveal trays of beans, rice…
