Katya Poltorak
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 15, 2026
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Can’t quiet your mind? Watching your brain might help you meditate. (opens the original)
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When something in the human body goes awry, medical science has an impressive repair kit. Fractured leg? A cast will keep it intact until it heals. Cloudy eye lens? Doctors swap in a clear artificial one. A kidney that can’t filter blood? Dialysis temporarily outsources the job. Mental health also has its go-to fix: a pill to lift a sinking mood, quiet intrusive thoughts or tone down hallucinations. This thought kept nagging at Northeastern University professor Clemens Bauer Hoss as he was finis
Scientists create a recyclable hydrogel that heals itself (opens the original)
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You pick up a contact lens from its container and — yikes! — it falls on the bathroom floor. Before you know it, your cat pounces, claws out. By the time you wrestle it back, the lens looks like a tiny chew toy. And then, just like that — the scratches fade away and the ripped edge seals itself up. Lenses that repair themselves aren’t on the market yet. But the self-healing material used to make them is very real. One particular type was created by Northeastern University chemistry and chemical
Cyclospora still making its way through the US. And it’s not alone (opens the original)
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First cilantro. Then lettuce. The tainted produce lineup grows as the Cyclospora saga continues, and now the crisis has expanded into a multi-front war. A second independent outbreak has emerged. Plus, the parasite itself is no longer flying solo, as several suspected bacterial pathogens are also wreaking havoc on the U.S. food supply. The current outbreak list compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now includes Campylobacter, E. coli (hiding in frozen blueberries)
Should you join the 5 AM Club? Why hitting snooze might be better (opens the original)
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What do Jennifer Anniston, Michelle Obama and Richard Branson have in common? Apart from the fact that they’re household names, they’re also members of the 5 AM Club, the morning routine that divides the first hour of the day into 20-minute sessions devoted to exercise, reflection and learning. First popularized by motivational speaker Robin Sharma in his 2018 book, “The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life,” it went viral a couple of years later, leading to 8.2 million posts and views
These researchers are demystifying oobleck, Dr. Seuss’s ‘green goo’ (opens the original)
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Cornstarch can thicken your egg drop soup or serve as a base for a DIY shampoo, but there’s more to the humble pantry staple. Given the right conditions, it seems to defy the laws of physics. Mixing cornstarch with water creates oobleck — a shape-shifting substance classified as a non-Newtonian fluid that changes states when subjected to a force. Leave it alone, and it oozes like liquid. Stir it up, and it gets more viscous before locking into a solid. Under certain conditions, if it’s punctured
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