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11 articles tagged “Science”.
The US has recorded more measles cases in seven months of 2026 than in any full year since 1991, and is on course to lose the elimination status it earned in 2000. The virus's contagiousness is the part most coverage skips.
On 12 August 2026 the Moon's shadow crossed Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain — mainland Europe's first totality since 1999. It lasted barely two minutes. Next August, one lasts six and a half.
Searches for fibermaxxing are up 115% in 90 days and dietary fibre interest has hit an all-time high. The underlying evidence is unusually strong — which makes it worth being precise about where the trend gets it wrong.
It is not distance from the Sun — in fact Earth is closest to the Sun in early January, during northern winter. The real mechanism is a 23.4° tilt doing two things at once, and one of them is easy to overlook.
4.54 billion years, give or take 50 million. The strange part is that the number comes from meteorites rather than Earth rocks — and the reason why is the most interesting thing in the whole story.
A vaccine is a training exercise: it shows your immune system a recognisable fragment of a pathogen without the pathogen. Here is the actual biology — antigens, memory cells, why boosters exist, and where the herd-immunity threshold number comes from.
Jet lag is a clock problem, not a tiredness problem — which is why sleeping more does not fix it. Light is the strongest lever you have, but get its timing wrong and you will push your body clock further from where you want it.
Seven hours is a floor, not a target, and the 'I only need five' claim is almost always wrong. What the sleep-medicine consensus says, why cutting an hour costs you mostly REM, and how to find your own number.
The RDA of 0.8 g/kg is a deficiency floor, not an optimum — and the research on muscle gain converges on a ceiling around 1.6 g/kg, above which more protein does essentially nothing. What the numbers mean for you.
150 minutes a week plus two strength sessions is the global guideline — but the dose-response curve says the most valuable exercise you will ever do is the first 20 minutes, not the last. What the WHO recommends, and where 10,000 steps came from.
Between 40°F and 140°F bacteria can double every 20 minutes. But the famous 165°F for chicken is not a magic threshold — it is one point on a time-and-temperature curve, and understanding that changes how you cook.