Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics. Although many of them disagree wildly about how the century-old theory describes reality, something they seem to agree on is…

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Advice on how to get good sleep is everywhere, with the market for sleep aids worth more than…

Elusive Cures

Nicole C. Rust Princeton Univ. Press (2025)

Over the past few decades, brain research has produced effective treatments for pain, insomnia, postpartum depression, paralysis and spinal muscular atrophy, but some trials for…

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found.

The…

The chairs by the pharmacy counter are hard bioplastic and contoured — supposedly — to the human body. They’re not the right shape for Harold or for anyone else who might actually need to sit on them. Too high off the ground, sized for…

SpaceX will launch its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23), and you can watch the action live.

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, during a four-hour window that…

New guidelines on what to eat and drink if you have chronic (long-term) constipation have been making news in recent days.

Much of the media coverage of the British Dietetic Association’s guidelines has focused on advice to eat kiwifruit every…