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We have all been told the same story about getting old well. Find your purpose. Stay active. Have a project. Make sure your retirement counts for something. It’s the message in every retirement guide, every wellness column, every chat with a well-meaning friend who has read one. The happy seventy-year-old, in this story, is the […]

Chronic early arrivers are often misread as anxious travelers. The pattern usually traces back to a specific childhood memory: watching a parent come undone at a counter, in a line, in front of strangers, and learning that buffer was the only thing that prevented public humiliation.

A new Phase 2 trial at Johns Hopkins testing the GLP-1 drug pegsebrenatide in progressive MS may finally explain why adults on diabetes medications for a decade show measurably slower brain shrinkage. The mechanism appears to run through neuroinflammation, vascular health, and brain insulin resistance.

Marine researchers are rewriting how plankton drive ocean carbon storage, with implications that reach from textbook taxonomy to climate models still relying on outdated assumptions about who does the work.

If you grew up in the 1960s and 70s, there is a good chance nobody sat you down and promised the world would treat you kindly. Many parents of that era had been shaped by wartime scarcity, postwar pragmatism, or the simple belief that life was something you got on with rather than something you […]

From its 1996 origins as the Next Generation Space Telescope through three near-cancellations and a $10 billion development arc, the James Webb Space Telescope's survival is as remarkable as its science. Now a new 20 percent budget cut threatens the most productive infrared observatory ever built.

NASA's most powerful flown ion engine produces just 237 millinewtons of thrust, roughly the weight of a sheet of paper. The 2028 SR-1 Freedom mission will quadruple that figure using a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor, and in doing so, rewrite the cost structure of every deep-space mission that follows.

The asteroid that carved the Moon’s largest scar may have arrived from the north, struck at a shallow angle, and flung pieces of deep lunar material across hundreds of kilometers of the far side. A new Science Advances study suggests fresh details about the formation of the South Pole–Aitken basin — and it places future […]

What looks like uncanny social intuition is often a survival skill installed in childhood. The neuroscience, the cardiovascular cost, and what it takes to set the instrument down.

For a while in my twenties, I was deep into the “think positive” thing. Affirmations on the mirror. Gratitude lists. Reframing every bad situation as a hidden opportunity. It worked for about three months, and then I just felt exhausted and slightly dishonest. Because some things aren’t opportunities. Some things are just hard. And pretending […]