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Elite endurance athletes do roughly 80% of their training at low intensity, and long-term studies suggest slow running is also enough for ordinary runners to see real h…

Elite endurance athletes do most of their training at an easy pace, and studies of tens of thousands of everyday runners link ...
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Peptide Update

A peptide is a short chain of amino acids, usually under fifty residues, that the body uses as a signaling molecule. Most ...
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We Walk Faster, Linger Less, and Miss Each Other More

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. A new study finds that people walk faster and ...
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Copernicus satellite data puts Spain's 2026 burned area at over 200,000 hectares, the largest of any EU nation, and the evacuation orders that followed did not check passports ...

I was one of the people that number eventually included, at a project camp in the province of Toledo. Not as a statistic exactly — more as a person standing in a line, waiting to be told where to go ...
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People Prefer Human Empathy Over AI, Even When Identical

Even when artificial intelligence generates the exact same empathetic response as a human, people value it less simply because they know it came from a machine. A sweeping new study involving over ...
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After a single distraction — a text message, a Slack ping — research suggests it takes roughly 23 minutes on average to fully return to the depth of focus you had before ...

A paper day planner beside a smartphone. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels, used as a representative image. A message flashes in the corner of a screen. Answering it takes perhaps 20 seconds. Yet a ...
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Latinos Drive $1 Trillion Surge in California’s Economy

If California’s Latino population were its own economy, it would rank among the world’s largest. A new report from UCLA and California Lutheran University reveals that California Latinos generated ...
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Waymo's robotaxis have now completed more than 20 million paid rides — and over the same distance, they caused 92% fewer pedestrian injuries than human drivers; the company ...

In late December 2025, Waymo’s fleet of driverless robotaxis quietly passed a specific milestone that no autonomous vehicle company had ever reached. The Alphabet subsidiary’s cars completed their 20 ...
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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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Texas ranchers now run sheep across roughly 68,000 acres of solar farms, more than half the American solar-grazing map, because goats climb the panels and chew the wires and ...

Drive through Milam County, Texas, past the endless glinting rows of one of the biggest solar projects in America, and look under the panels. Down in the shade, working steadily through the grass, are ...
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A study of 730,000 Norwegian conscripts found the IQ gains of the 20th century reversed after 1975, falling by roughly seven points a generation, and ruled out genetics as the ...

For most of the 20th century, one of the most reliable trends in psychology was that intelligence test scores kept rising. The New Zealand researcher James Flynn documented it across dozens of ...