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- Aug 24, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Lack of sleep may cause anxiety by making us less adaptable to threats | New Scientist (opens the original)
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We often feel more anxious and stressed when we are tired, and scientists may have partly uncovered why. A lack of shuteye may make it harder for our brain to adapt to new, potentially threatening environments, keeping us in a hyperalert state. This might have been an advantage for our ancient human ancestors, who were more vulnerable to predators, but may be less useful in our modern world. “Our bodies and brain view sleep loss as a reason to turn on the emergency engines in order to survive,”
Our fertility window could be extended by making ovaries softer | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Our fertility window could be extended by making the ovaries less stiff. A drug that softens the organ more than doubled the conception rate of older rats with declining fertility and increased their litter size fivefold. It needs to be tested on women, but the results have raised hopes that the intervention could help them conceive at an older age. Women’s fertility tends to start declining in their mid-thirties. However, in countries like England and Wales, many are choosing to have children l
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