Living near a nuclear power plant does not meaningfully increase your cancer risk under normal operating conditions, according to the weight of current scientific evidence. A November 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis published in Environmental Health (Cottagiri, King, Rodriguez-Villamizar, Villeneuve) found only “limited evidence” that residential proximity to nuclear plants increases thyroid cancer incidence. The […]

Humans evolved to need concentrated, high-quality sleep of roughly 6.5 to 8 hours because that window is when the brain executes its most critical maintenance operations: consolidating memories, clearing metabolic waste, regulating hormones, and processing emotional experiences through REM sleep. The predator problem was solved not by sleeping less, but by sleeping smarter in social

Engineered bacteria can now infiltrate solid cancer tumors, colonize their oxygen-starved cores, and destroy them from within. Researchers at the University of Waterloo published findings in ACS Synthetic Biology in February 2026 showing that genetically modified Clostridium sporogenes bacteria use quorum sensing circuits to detect when they have reached sufficient density inside a tumor before