Sometimes after a long day, we feel plain exhausted and just want to flop into bed. In those moments, brushing our teeth can feel like a chore, especially when the comfort of sleep is waiting. Yet scientists are now asking whether the bacteria and fungi living in our mouths could play a bigger role in...
United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is back at it again with further claims about what he thinks causes autism. This time, he is claiming that there is a link between infant circumcision and autism in boys. He made this claim while attempting to reassert his long-standing, scientifically unsupported theory about the pain...
Students gathered in Pasadena on October 1, 2025, expecting to hear the legendary anthropologist speak about protecting the environment and what young people could do to change the world, but Jane Goodall had died that morning in her sleep at 91 in Los Angeles, and the cause of death was natural. Months before her death,...
Curious why people today often look younger than their parents did? Do we age slower than past generations, or are we imagining it? Well, there are actually multiple reasons that it appears this way. For one, a person’s style and grooming affect our first impressions more than we even realize. Additionally, over the decades, smoking...
Midlife hits fast, and your body gets more opinionated about everything with age. However, that is not a crisis; it is a cue to start paying attention. Think of each midlife health warning as a friendly tap on the shoulder that says, “Maybe check this now, so you don’t have any major issues tomorrow.” Some...
If you are currently pushing your phone a little farther away to read this article, you are not alone. Known as presbyopia, it is a normal change in vision that occurs for most of us in our 40s. In mid-2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a once-daily prescription eye drop called Vizz for...
On the 1st of October, 2025, reports of a new wave of COVID infections being driven by a variant often nicknamed Stratus started circulating. Early research has revealed that children who are infected more than once face a higher risk of long COVID. Additionally, a pediatric analysis suggests that a second infection can double the...
It’s one of those things that nobody really likes to talk about, but almost every woman experiences it at some point. That awkward vaginal itch can appear out of nowhere and sometimes makes daily life feel impossible. For many women, it’s harmless and fades away after a few days. For others, it just doesn’t stop...
Your brain might be your most underappreciated sex organ in your body. While most conversations about self-pleasure focus on physical touch, researchers have discovered something about the connection between mind and body during arousal that changes how we understand sexual response. You can experience genuine physical pleasure without touching yourself at all, through techniques like...
People usually talk about eating right, getting exercise, and staying away from bad habits when it comes to living longer. That makes sense, but now scientists are saying there’s more to it. They believe personality traits and life expectancy are tied together in ways that might surprise you. The way someone acts or reacts to...
Dylan Jay Watts was living on the New South Wales South Coast when a violent chest infection overwhelmed him. According to Australian news reports, he died only days before turning 29, with scans revealing many cavities in his lungs. His sister Caitlyn stated that, “He was severely ill with a bacterium in his lungs that...
A coroner has concluded that the death of 23-year-old Paloma Shemirani was “more than minimally” contributed to by the adverse influence of her mother, Kate Shemirani, a prominent online conspiracy theorist and former nurse. Paloma, a Cambridge graduate, died in July of last year after choosing to forgo conventional cancer treatment in favor of an...
