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: Rosemary Byfield, Epoch Times
To boost strength and resilience we need to eat more nutrient-dense foods and support blood circulation. The digestive system is an important source of support for the lungs that also tends to express more deficiencies in autumn.
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- Written by: Erin Sagen and Araz Hachadourian, YES! Magazine
Around 2006, Cherokee leaders approached administrative liaison Pat Gwin about starting a seed bank. They already had launched an initiative to improve health care access and infrastructure at the reservation; now, they wanted to go even deeper by recovering ancestral seeds to preserve their cultural heritage.
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- Written by: Liza Bayless, YES! Magazine
In an industry usually focused on medicine and procedures, a Philadelphia-area hospital decided what its patients needed was a farm and advice about food.
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- Written by: Sophie Medlin
The debate over the necessity of dairy in human diets continues, influenced by genetic adaptations and cultural practices. While many populations thrive on dairy, others face lactose intolerance. Recent studies challenge the traditional view of calcium's role in bone health, suggesting that while dairy is not essential for adults, it offers important nutrients that may be harder to obtain from other sources.
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- Written by: Julia Short, Cardiff University
Taking a low-dose aspirin every day to reduce the risk of heart disease or cancer may be worth the increased risk of stomach bleeding, an analysis shows.
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- Written by: Ryan Underwood, Vanderbilt University
The idea that healthy foods are universally more expensive can lead consumers to make choices that aren’t always necessary, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Vanessa McMains, Johns Hopkins University
Just one dose of a hallucinogenic drug offers many cancer patients up to six months of relief from disease-related anxiety or depression.
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- Written by: Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich
Eating a very high-fat diet early in life may disrupt development of the prefrontal cortex in young brains, according to new research in mice.
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- Written by: University of Melbourne
Rice is the staple food of billions of people throughout the developing world. But beyond easing hunger pains and providing carbohydrates for energy, it has little nutritional value.
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- Written by: Jim Dryden, Washington University in St. Louis
Inflammation is one of the main reasons why people with diabetes experience heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems, and other, related complications. Now a surprise finding identifies a possible trigger of chronic inflammation.
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- Written by: Michelle Ma, University of Washington
Recent studies estimate up to 30 percent of seafood in restaurants and supermarkets is actually something other than what is listed on the menu or label.
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- Written by: Nicola Jones, University of Warwick
A review of seven research studies suggests a vitamin D deficiency might increase the risk of bladder cancer.
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- Written by: Gerry Everding, Washington University in St. Louis
The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest known physical evidence for the introduction of domesticated chickens to the continent of Africa.
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- Written by: Marla Paul, Northwestern University
Scientists have identified for the first time the region in the brain responsible for the “placebo effect” in pain relief, when a fake treatment actually results in substantial reduction of pain.
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- Written by: Kristin Samuelson, Northwestern University
Depending on your genetic make-up, you might be able to drink coffee right before bed or feel wired after just one cup, ongoing research shows.
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- Written by: Jim Dryden, Washington University in St. Louis
In a small weight-loss study, women on a high-protein diet did lose weight but didn’t see improvements in insulin sensitivity, which can help lower diabetes risk.
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- Written by: Amy Pullan, University of Sheffield
Researchers find no link between how hungry we feel and the number of calories we consume.
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- Written by: Emma Rayner, University of Nottingham
Women who replaced an afternoon diet drink with water lost more weight and had better insulin sensitivity.
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- Written by: Chris Elliott, Queen's University Belfast and Marie Cantwell, Queen's University Belfast
Eating processed meat can increase your risk of getting colorectal cancer. The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) says that each 50g portion of processed meat eaten daily (about two bacon rashers) increases bowel cancer risk by 18%.
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- Written by: Paul Bertrand; Amy Loughman, and Melinda Jackson, RMIT University
The gut microbiota is the community of bugs, including bacteria, that live in our intestine. It has been called the body’s “forgotten organ” because of the important role it plays beyond digestion and metabolism.
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- Written by: Andrew Tonkin, Monash University
Aspirin is, like ibuprofen and Voltaren (diclofenac), a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to treat pain and reduce fever.
