Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Barbara Moran-Boston University
Playing youth tackle football may lead to earlier onset of cognitive, behavior, and mood symptoms in later life, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison-NYU
A “smart home” dresser prototype may help people with dementia dress themselves through automated assistance. This would enable them to maintain independence and dignity and provide their caregivers with a much-needed break.
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- Written by: Martin Brofman
When you take a Kirlian photograph of your hand, it shows a certain pattern of energy. If you take a second photograph while imagining that you are sending love and energy to someone you know, the Kirlian photograph will show a different pattern of energy. Thus, we can see that a change in your consciousness creates a change in the energy field...
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- Written by: Katherine Gombay-McGill University
Activating something called the behavioral immune system puts a damper on dating, new research shows. The theory is that perceiving, rightly or wrongly, the threat of disease unconsciously activates this system.
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- Written by: Chanapa Tantibanchachai-Johns Hopkins
A recent study reveals that Americans, particularly younger individuals, tend to sleep later on weekends, leading to accumulated sleep debt by Monday. This research highlights the need for schools to adjust start times to align better with teenagers' natural sleep cycles, potentially improving overall health and academic performance.
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- Written by: Tom Hughes-UNC
Researchers have identified 44 genomic variants, or loci, with a statistically significant association with depression. The meta-analysis involves research with more than 135,000 people with major depression and more than 344,000 controls.
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- Written by: Yen Ying Lim, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Our life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past several decades, with advances in medical research, nutrition and health care seeing us live well into our 80s.
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- Written by: Susanne Pallo-University of Rochester
The gut microbiome could be the culprit behind arthritis and joint pain that plagues people who are obese, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Northwestern University
A surge in childhood food allergies across the United States has turned classrooms into homemade-treat-free zones and parents into experts at scanning labels. But what’s fact and what’s fiction?
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- Written by: Susan Woods; Hannah Brown and Tamsin Lannagan, University of Adelaide
It might be a spot, lump, bump or polyp you’ve found suspicious or bothersome enough to ask a doctor to have a look at. The doctor sends what she has excised for testing and tells you it’s “pre-cancerous”. But what exactly does that mean, and is it cause for alarm?
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- Written by: William Pullen
The natural world is our natural home. This may sound obvious, but to many it’s a forgotten truth. There is so much drawing us away from the grounding and nourishing world around us. But no matter how cut off we may feel, or how far into our own darkness we fall, the sun always rises with the possibilities of the day ahead.
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- Written by: Tania Perich, Western Sydney University
Most women expect to experience the effects of hormonal changes when they come to menopause and many anticipate increased irritability and mood swings. But mood swings that can be just an annoyance for some women can develop into something more serious for others.
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- Written by: Keith Brannon-Tulane University
Participating in yoga and mindfulness activities at school may help anxious third-graders improve their well-being and emotional health, according to a small study.
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- Written by: Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News
Drawing on their decades of practice along with the latest medical data, Gill and three geriatric experts agreed to help identify examples of what are often — but not always – considered to be signposts of normal aging for folks who practice good health habits and get recommended preventive care.
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- Written by: Michel Odoul
After many years of practicing energy techniques, specifically shiatsu, I have been able to realize to what extent, for each one of us, our body speaks to us (shouting even) about what we are really experiencing in the depths of ourself. Our deepest reality, our nonconscious, our mind, our soul -- whatever your preferred term is -- speaks to us constantly, telling us what isn't working.
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- Written by: Laura Bailey-University of Michigan
A review of studies on exercise and happiness addresses some lingering questions about the effects of physical
activity on positive health conditions.
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- Written by: Jane Tiller and Paul Lacaze, Monash University
You might be intrigued by what your genes could tell you about your ancestry or the health risks hidden in your DNA. If so, you’re not alone. Fascination with personal genetics is fuelling an explosion of online DNA testing. More than 12 million people have been tested – 7 million through ancestry.com alone.
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- Written by: Elisa Lottor
Scientists have searched for and recently found out why some people live to be over one hundred, while being physically active, happy, and healthy. A team of experts in Tokyo researched which processes in the body may be responsible for not only successful aging but also for longevity. They have identified the common denominator, and that is inflammation.
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- Written by: Rodney Sinclair, University of Melbourne
We’re all attracted to a beautiful face. We like to look at them, we feel drawn to them and we aspire to have one.
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- Written by: Jonathan Goldman and Andi Goldman
Sound is an exceptionally powerful energy. It has the ability to stimulate the release of hormones in the body, to reduce the stress response and induce relaxation, to penetrate to body and affect us at a cellular level, to rearrange molecular structure, and to shape matter itself.
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- Written by: Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD
Do you ever wonder why you do things specifically the way you do? Whether I’m reading a patient’s echocardiogram or loading the dishwasher, I have “a way” to do it, which is different from someone else’s “way.” How does this happen?
