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What Happens If You Stop Taking One?
A few years ago, a woman in her sixties agreed to participate in an unusual study. Researchers placed an electrode deep in a part of her brain called the nucleus accumbens, a region involved in reward, motivation, and calculating what’s…
Scientists warn a popular vitamin D supplement may have a hidden downside
A common vitamin D supplement may have an unexpected effect inside the body. Research published in 2025 found that taking vitamin D2 can reduce levels of vitamin D3, the form humans naturally make when skin is exposed to sunlight. That…
What Happens When Farmers Help Neighbors Dine Together?
Rather than offering a flat $200 in the second round, NOFA-VT asked applicants to request only what they needed—like enough for locally roasted coffee and doughnuts sourced from a local farm—to stretch the funding. In round two, the organization awarded…
‘It looks like a chimera’ — 168 million years ago, a strange platypus-like mammal relative lived in China alongside dinosaurs
A newly discovered platypus-like creature is the largest-known mammal relative from the entire Jurassic period, a new study finds — although it still only weighed as much as a Chihuahua.The critter, which hunted salamanders in the freshwater lakes and rivers…
Scientists discover genetic traits that may explain 194-year-old tortoise’s impressive longevity
The remote south Atlantic island of St. Helena boasts an international celebrity: the tortoise Jonathan, the oldest living land animal. At 194 years old, he has outlasted the expected lifespan for an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) by about a…
Building Characters From the Clothes People Forget They Are Wearing
Source: Jackie KnightThe costume designer and stylist brings an art-world eye to screen work, using real-life references and character-first research to make wardrobe feel observed rather than arranged.Article continues below advertisementJackie Knight has a habit that would only make sense…
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