Three kilometres beneath the East Antarctic plateau resides air that nobody has ever inhaled. It precipitated as snow approximately 800,000 years ago, was hidden by the subsequent winter, and has been enveloped by each winter since then. Drillers associated with the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica dedicated nearly a decade to pursuing it […]

Ask anyone why they consume eight glasses of water daily, and you’ll likely receive a shrug, a guess, or a confident reference to “science.” No one has been able to point to the specific study backing this claim. There isn’t one. That succinctly summarizes the findings of Heinz Valtin, a kidney physiologist at Dartmouth Medical […]

Demonstrate greater kindness and elevate others by allocating more of your time and resources. As guidelines go, this is sound advice, backed by extensive research: individuals who give often gain, as do those who receive. However, the term more conceals two insights that are more beneficial than the catchphrase. Giving operates in a genuinely unexpected […]