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As 100-year lives become increasingly common, Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen is working to understand the implications – and to ensure we can make the most of our extra years.

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Viruses have an understandably bad reputation. But deep in our digestive system, a lot of them are quietly working to keep us healthy. This “gut virome” is a key part of the overall microbiome—the ...

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Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become the driving force of our evolution.

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Next month our lives will be thrown into a state of flux for a few days as we set our clocks back an hour. While it’s certainly inconvenient from a sleep and scheduling point of view, scientists are ...