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Scientists say just 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·17d ago
Scientists say just 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain Just seven days of intensive meditation and mind-body practices produced measurable changes in participants’ brains, blood chemistry...
Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·17d ago
Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds - Date: - August 8, 2026 - Source: - Ruhr-University Bochum - Summary: - Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS.
Point Nemo Location Explained - What Is Nemo Point?
Atlas Obscuraby Frank Jacobs·17d ago
Q: What do sci-fi-pioneer Jules Verne, horror-writer H.P. Lovecraft, and the Russian space programme have in common?
Will a Looming Budget Crunch Reverse Efforts to Rein in Fines and Fees?
The Marshall Projectby Jamiles Lartey·18d ago
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Teen cannabis use linked to slower memory and thinking growth
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·18d ago
Teen cannabis use linked to slower memory and thinking growth - Date: - August 7, 2026 - Source: - University of California - San Diego - Summary: - Teens who start using cannabis may experience...
Alleged ‘Enforcer’ in Prince Group Scam Network Identified
OCCRPby Also published by our partner The Straits Times Singapore; In English·18d ago
Reported by An individual identified as “Co-Conspirator-2” in a U.S. grand jury indictment allegedly acted as an “enforcer” for the Prince Group by fending off police crackdowns on the sprawling...
How to Deal With Iran
Palladium Magazineby Marko Jukic·18d ago
Just a few weeks ago, on the seventeenth of June, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the fourteen-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which promised...
Colossal Biosciences Said It Cloned Red Wolves. Is It for Real? - Longreads
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·18d ago
Midway through Boyce Upholt’s mind-boggling dispatch, one of his sources sums up the central challenge of the Gulf Coast canid: “Why is there not just a simple explanation for what this thing is?”...
Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader
IEEE Spectrumby Prachi Jain·19d ago
The transition from a purely technical expert or individual contributor position to a broader leadership role is one of the most challenging phases in a STEM career.
That Time I Learned an Unforgettable Lesson From a 12-Year-Old Monk
Narrativelyby Rick Weiss·19d ago
We recently held a contest over at our sister site, Narratively Academy, in which we asked you about a time when you learned from someone unexpected.
Where Dance Meets the Spirit World - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby H.M.A. Leow·19d ago
Mounted on handcrafted hobbyhorses, the dancers prance in circles, stamp, gulp down buckets of water, and chomp on fodder. Have they been possessed by horse-like spirits?
From The Trap Of Geopolitics To A Geo-Civilizational Paradigm | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Nathan Gardels·19d ago
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem
IEEE Spectrumby Francesco Linsalata·19d ago
The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first.
New autism therapy shows surprising benefits even in adult mice
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·19d ago
New autism therapy shows surprising benefits even in adult mice A long-lasting treatment restored disrupted brain signaling and eased autism-related behaviors.
Which age group has the most climate-intensive diet?
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce·19d ago
Your age shapes your diet’s impact will be—and while older people drive overall emissions increases at global scales, it’s surprisingly the youth who have a higher individual footprint, a new study...
House Democrats Demand Answers From Trump’s VA on Vets Struggling to Access Mental Healthcare
ProPublicaby Eric Umansky·19d ago
What Happened: More than 60 House Democrats are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins for answers about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained...
Mountain Lions Are Keeping Deer Off the Road, Study Finds
Yale E360by Ted Williams·19d ago
Mountain lions in Washington state may be cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds.
Physicists watch a material’s electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News·19d ago
A tall glass of ice water isn’t just a thirst quencher; it’s also an everyday example of coexisting phases. Water’s molecular makeup can exist simultaneously in both a liquid and solid phase.
What Is the Trump Administration Doing With Foreign Aid Money?
ProPublicaby Sharon Lerner·19d ago
Since he returned to office, President Donald Trump’s administration has upended foreign aid. It’s labeled well-established, long-running programs as “not aligned with American interests” and...
Tether: a $200 billion crypto company you can’t look inside
ICIJby Spencer Woodman·19d ago
Tether, which mints the world’s most widely used crypto token, is likely one of the most valuable private companies on earth, with an estimated value of $200 billion, exceeding the total share...
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