The power of the gut biome to influence your health is as astounding as the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. This teeming world of an estimated 100 trillion microbes that occupies your inner space went unexplored for millennia. But now, scientists have begun to probe just how much it affects your everyday well-being and how you can help keep it in shape -...
NASA released the first-ever picture of a black hole and its shadow in July 2019. That made us think about certain sports teams that are notorious for drawing their fans into a black hole of broken dreams from which there seems no escape. Yet, as Stephen Hawking famously predicted, energy can escape a black hole's iron grip, and so can sports...
In 1966, Timothy Leary got it wrong (not surprising) when he said, "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Research from the U.K.'s University of Exeter and King's College London clearly shows that when you turn on a hearing aid and tune in to what's going on around you, you don't drop out. Quite the opposite happens. You strengthen your...