Boy Learns Something Unsettling About Peanut Butter So He Built His Own Brand
Franco Leonardi was 18 and still finishing high school in Argentina when a family contact in the peanut industry told him something he could not stop thinking about. A significant portion of commercial peanut butter, the contact explained, is made using peanuts that cannot be sold in whole form: older batches, cracked kernels, product that […]
Vivid Dreams Actually Make You Sleep More Deeply
For decades, the scientific understanding of deep sleep rested on a simple idea: the more quiet and inactive the brain, the more restorative the rest. Dreaming was considered a sign of partial wakefulness, a kind of interruption in the deeper stages of sleep rather than a feature of them. A new study from the IMT […]
The Most Complete Sea Monster Skull Ever Found
A fossil hunter named Phil Jacobs was walking along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England when he spotted what appeared to be a strange piece of snout poking out of the beach. He filmed it, shared it with renowned fossil collector Steve Etches, and what followed was one of the most dramatic paleontological discoveries in […]
From Janitor To Doctor At Yale
When Shay Taylor-Allen found out she had matched with her first-choice medical residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, she said she was jumping up and down so hard she thought the concrete might break. The reaction makes a lot more sense when you know the full story. The 32-year-old, who is about to graduate from […]
The Community That Proved Parents Are Not Powerless Against Phones
In the small Irish seaside town of Greystones, just south of Dublin, something genuinely unusual is happening: children are growing up without smartphones, and most of them say they are fine with it. In 2023, local parents, school principals and community members launched a voluntary program called It Takes a Village, asking families to agree […]
Wikipedia Just Officially Banned AI From Writing Its Articles
Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites in the world, has officially banned the use of artificial intelligence to write or rewrite its articles. The new policy, which passed with 44 votes in favor and just two opposed among the site’s volunteer editor community, states clearly that AI-generated text often violates Wikipedia’s core content standards […]
The World’s First Quantum Battery Could Change How Everything Charges
Everything you have ever charged, from your phone to your electric car, relies on the same basic chemistry that has powered batteries for well over a century. Australian scientists just took a meaningful step toward changing that entirely. A team led by CSIRO in partnership with the University of Melbourne and RMIT has built and […]
Scientists Found A Switch Drives Alzheimer’s And Turned It Off
Scientists at Heidelberg University in Germany believe they have identified a hidden mechanism deep inside the Alzheimer’s-affected brain that may be one of the primary drivers of the disease, and they have found a compound that can switch it off. The research centers on two proteins that under normal conditions operate independently and serve healthy […]
Paid Leave Access Expands To Millions of Americans
A record number of Americans now have access to paid leave for the first time in history, thanks to a steady wave of state-level action that has quietly transformed the landscape of workers’ rights over the past two decades. A new report from the National Partnership for Women and Families found that 14 state paid […]
Ancient Handprints Found To Be The Oldest Known Art On Earth
Somewhere on the limestone walls of a cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, a human hand was pressed against stone more than 67,800 years ago and traced in pigment, leaving behind what is now confirmed as the oldest known piece of art ever created by our species. An international team led by researchers […]