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Two hours a week in the gym may add years to your life
From Antarctic secrets to da Vinci’s reunited notebooks, Sweden's phone ban, a morning of science, history, and the case for paper books
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Sperm Donor She Fell in Love With, and Nine Other Stories to Brighten Your Monday
Plus: World Ocean Day conservation win, fire salamanders glow under UV light, and World Cup grass science
 • Alexander Verbeek
What Churchill's 500 Paintings Tell Us About Leading Through Failure
Plus: Why your dog eats grass, the Sagrada Família's final tower, mangrove forests recovering, and Zorba's dance
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Nighttime Sound That Haunted Coastlines for Centuries Finally Has an Answer
Plus: Dutch flood barriers, Ötzi's ancient yeast makes great bread, and the Von Trapp house near my childhood home
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The Student Who Saved La La Land, the Real Pirates of the Caribbean, and a Cat Who Nurses the Sick
Plus: Two thousand years found under Notre Dame, Japanese ibises fly free after decades, and sea cucumber tissue that refuses to die
 • Alexander Verbeek
How New Yorkers Toppled King George in 1776, and Can Again Today
Plus: why the Great Pyramid survives earthquakes, the octopus with blue blood, and two women buried in an embrace
 • Alexander Verbeek
Why Women Find Other Women More Attractive Than Men (Science Finally Has an Answer)
Plus: the hobbies that protect your brain, the King Arthur manuscript scholars couldn't study, UK adults who barely go outside, and giant pandas falling…
 • Alexander Verbeek
🐋 Beluga Whales Can Recognize Themselves in a Mirror (Plus Nine More Good-News Stories)
☕️ Plus: The genetic mystery of orange cats, wind beats gas for the first time, a blue octopus from the deep, and lost Seville masterpieces recovered
 • Alexander Verbeek
Why T. Rex Gave Up Its Arms for a Bigger Bite, and What Science Just Proved
Plus: Lithuania's renewable revolution, Neolithic hall rebuilt near Stonehenge, and Van Gogh's hidden original colors
 • Alexander Verbeek
Good News Is Not a Luxury: A New Study Explains Why You Need It
Plus: Why 90% of us are right-handed, cows recognize your face and voice, a frog named Greg survives the salad aisle, and hedgehogs go orbital
 • Alexander Verbeek
Why Your Diet at 70 Can Make You Biologically Younger in Four Weeks
Plus: Buenos Aires rescues lab rats, old newspapers track porpoises, European eclipse books out, and 26 women convert a convent
 • Alexander Verbeek
Luna Scores Like a Dog: The Science of Why Pets Are Good for You
Plus: the fiber trend worth following, two plants back from extinction, Artemis III details, and Mount St. Helens turns 46
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Museum Visit That Slows Your Biological Clock
Plus: a 27-ton dinosaur in Thailand, the Beatles open their rooftop, and Italy's wolves
 • Alexander Verbeek
Why French Students Pay One Euro for Lunch While Americans Pay a Lifetime of Debt
Plus: Neanderthal dentists, bee-powered drones, a NASA panorama, and Bach in the rain
 • Alexander Verbeek
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