Endurance athletes have a four times higher risk of irregular heartbeat – and this may be why

Exercise is one of the best things we can do for a healthy heart. Yet research shows that endurance athletes have up to a ...

2025’s words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionment

Perhaps the most contentious choice in 2025 was “6-7,” chosen by Dictionary.com. In this case, the controversy has to do with the actual meaning of this bit of Gen Alpha slang. The editors of the ...
SecurityWeek

The Great Disconnect: Unmasking the ‘Two Separate Conversations’ in Security

How security teams often talk past each other and how differing interpretations of key terms create “two separate ...
Opinion

The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety

This isn’t simply people chasing lower taxes. It’s a housing affordability crisis in motion. The annual household income needed to qualify for a mortgage on a mid-tier California home was about ...

People who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive – new research

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) ...

Our food has too many toxins and not enough nutrients – but we already have the tools to fix it

An additional problem is exposure to toxic elements such as arsenic, lead, mercury and cadmium, which we come into contact ...

Everything everywhere all at once: How Zohran Mamdani campaigned both online and with a ground game

Mamdani won the general election with 50.4% of the vote, a larger share than was predicted by most polls, and his get-out-the-vote campaign has received some of the credit. Mamdani claims that his ...

Flat Earth, spirits and conspiracy theories – experience can shape even extraordinary beliefs

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you’re standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence favors one extraordinary belief over the others. Of course, scientific evidence ...

Yes, the government can track your location – but usually not by spying on you directly

The U.S. government doesn’t need to collect data about people’s locations itself, because your mobile phone is already doing it. While location data is sometimes collected as part of a mobile phone ...

Nonprofit news outlets are often scared that selling ads could jeopardize their tax-exempt status, but IRS records show that’s been rare

At the same time, some nonprofit news leaders have avoided selling ads because the IRS has said their organizations would have to pay taxes on that revenue. They have also heard that selling too many ...

Treating love for work like a virtue can backfire on employees and teams

At first glance, treating love for work as a virtue seems to offer nothing but benefits. If a job’s mission or day-to-day tasks are personally meaningful, you may persist through challenges, because ...

Texas cities have some of the highest preterm birth rates in the US, highlighting maternal health crisis nationwide

The March of Dimes report scored the U.S. overall a D+ grade on preterm birth rate at 10.4%, but states differ dramatically in their scores. New Hampshire, for example, scored an A- with 7.9% of ...