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New Research Reveals The Personality Trait That Predicts Whether You Will Seek Out A Cat When Stressed
A study published in the journal Anthrozoös, conducted by researchers at Washington State University and KU Leuven in Belgium, has identified the personality trait most likely to predict whether someone will seek out a cat for stress relief rather than a dog, and the answer has a name: emotionality. Researchers
A Kitten Found Covered Head To Tail In Industrial Glue Just Made A Full Recovery And Has A New Home
When a good Samaritan in Fort Worth, Texas, discovered a small kitten stuck in a bucket of industrial-strength glue near an industrial area in April and rushed him to the Humane Society of North Texas, shelter staff were not sure the tiny animal would survive the night. The glue was
An Alaska Animal Shelter Lets You Borrow A Dog For 48 Hours And It Is Leading To More Adoptions
The Anchorage Animal Care and Control shelter in Alaska launched a program in spring 2025 called Tails on Trails that has since become one of the most talked-about shelter initiatives in the country, pairing volunteers with a shelter dog for 48 hours and sending them out to explore the trails
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Scientists Just Proved That Your Brain Can Dream While You Are Wide Awake
A study from the Paris Brain Institute, published in Cell Reports, has overturned something most people take for granted: that dreaming and waking are two cleanly separate mental states, each with their own type of thoughts. Researchers monitored 92 adults using EEG caps as they drifted into and out of
Communities Across America Are Banning AI Data Centers And The Number Just Jumped From 8 To 78
According to the U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker, communities across the country have been pushing back against the rapid expansion of AI data centers with growing success, with the number of active bans and moratoriums jumping from just 8 in May 2025 to 78 today, including 50 active restrictions and
Birdwatching Among Gen Z In Britain Has Grown By Over 1000 Percent Since 2018 And The Reasons Why Are Beautiful
Birdwatching has quietly become one of the fastest-growing hobbies among young people in Britain, with new research from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds finding that nearly 750,000 people aged 16 to 29 now birdwatch regularly, a staggering increase of more than 1,000 percent since 2018. The study
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Happy Health
Scientists Just Restored Memory In Alzheimers Models By Blocking One Protein And The Implications Are Huge
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified a new potential strategy for fighting Alzheimer’s disease, finding that blocking a single protein called PTP1B restored memory and improved the brain’s ability to clear the toxic plaque buildup that drives the disease in mouse models. The protein PTP1B was first discovered
Cooking One Home Meal A Week Could Cut Your Dementia Risk By 30 Percent And For New Cooks Its Even More
A new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has found that older adults who prepare a home-cooked meal from scratch at least once a week have a significantly lower risk of developing dementia, with the protective effect growing even stronger for people who are just learning
The FDA Fast-Tracked Psychedelic Medicines For Depression And PTSD
The Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked three psychedelic medicines for review, issuing priority vouchers to companies studying psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, psilocybin for major depressive disorder, and methylone, a compound related to MDMA, for post-traumatic stress disorder, in a development that could put the first FDA-approved psychedelic medicines on