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Tracking 10,317 members of Wisconsin's high school class of 1957 to age 80, a 2026 study found that childhood exposure to fluoridated drinking water was not linked t…

Members of Wisconsin's high school class of 1957 who grew up with fluoridated drinking water scored no lower on IQ tests as ...
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Gen Z reports the highest loneliness rate of any generation at 67% — compared with just 44% of baby boomers — reversing the old assumption that loneliness was primarily a ...

A young woman sits apart during a social gathering. Representative image. Photo by Vitaly Gariev via Pexels. A 2025 report from The Cigna Group places Gen Z at the top of a stark US generational ...
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Why does Tennessee now have wild hogs in about 80 of its 95 counties when they were confined to a handful a few decades ago?

A 1999 hunting season with no bag limit was meant to cut Tennessee’s wild hog numbers, but it made the hogs worth moving, and ...
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Your dentist is part of your longevity program

The statistical association is clear: tooth decay and infected gums are associated with higher rates of heart disease and all ...
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Becoming a Man, a Chicago program built on cognitive behavioral therapy, cut violent-crime arrests 45 to 50 percent across two randomized trials, with no sign the gains came ...

Dunbar Vocational Career Academy, a public high school on Chicago's South Side. Photo: Klio0701, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 2009, researchers in Chicago set out to test a weekly school ...
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Most US lobster-trap tags that washed up on two Azores islands came from Maine, more than 3,000 km away, in a count of 1,577 pieces of North American gear with ta…

Every lobster trap set off the coast of Maine must carry a small plastic tag, usually stamped with a license number, a year ...
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The moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres a year, so what happens to us as it goes?

The specific number, on the current best interpretation of five decades of lunar laser ranging data, is 3.83 centimetres per year, with a formal uncertainty of approximately 0.09 millimetres. It has ...
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Sharing a bed with a dog showed no difference in owners’ tracker-measured sleep duration or efficiency, whether they reported always, sometimes or never doing it, in a study ...

Husky and malamute owners showed no significant tracker-measured sleep difference by bed-sharing habit. Twelve of 25 said their dog interrupted their sleep.
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The world has three different 'tallest mountains' depending on how you measure: Everest wins above sea level, Mauna Kea wins base to summit, and an Ecuadorian volcano called ...

Chimborazo in Ecuador, whose summit is the surface point farthest from Earth's center. Photo by April Beasley via Pexels. Mount Everest, Mauna Kea and Chimborazo can each be called Earth’s tallest ...
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Magnetic Therapy Offers Breakthrough for Depression, Boosting Treatment Efficacy Without the Cognitive Costs

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. These 3D models illustrate the study's ...
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A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city's heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise ...

Almost all the electricity a data center pulls off the grid comes back out as heat. One overview of the field puts the figure at roughly 90%. A data center is, in effect, a very expensive radiator.
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A New Theory Says DMT Entities Might Be Real, and Proposes How to Test It

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. About 45 percent of people who smoke a ...