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The Science of Silence: How It Changes the Brain

Scientists are finding that simple, daily silence can physically change the brain and calm the body — yet our noise-saturated society makes real quiet...
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Colorado River Basin In Crisis | Millions Of Homes At Risk

Lake Powell now sits barely 34 feet above the point where Glen Canyon Dam goes dark, turning a quiet Western drought into a looming...
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Gum Bleed Today, Dialysis Tomorrow?

Bleeding gums might mean more than a rough brushing session. New research shows they could point to trouble deep inside your kidneys, long before...
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Protein That Halts Alzheimer’s Brain Shrinkage

A single brain protein just turned into one of the most surprising shields scientists have ever seen against Alzheimer’s-style damage in mice.Story SnapshotExtra SORLA...
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Hospital Walls Vanish With Local VR

A cancer patient in Gloucestershire put on a headset and, for twenty minutes, stood inside Gloucester Cathedral without leaving her hospital bed.Story SnapshotGloucestershire hospitals...
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FDA-Approved Drug Makes Cancer Tumors Glow

Surgeons are now literally making lung tumors glow in the operating room, and it is changing how cancer is removed.Story SnapshotA fluorescent drug called...
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Love Going To Museums & Concerts? Discover Its Effect On Your Health

If you love museums and concerts, the lab says your blood may be quietly aging more slowly.Story SnapshotWeekly arts and cultural outings are linked...
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Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Baffles Investigators

A microscopic parasite has sickened more than 1,600 Americans, and health officials still cannot say what food is poisoning people.Story SnapshotMore than 400 outbreak...
Researchers Link Six Weeks of Poor Sleep to Weight Gain and Inactivity

Stealth Sleep Loss, Scale Shock

Cutting just 80 minutes of sleep a night for a few weeks nudged people’s weight up and their movement down, hinting that “a little...
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Legal Farm Chemicals, Rising Tumors

Lung cancer is showing up in people who never smoked a cigarette, and a growing body of research points to something most of us...

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