Dr. Pooja Kumar is a senior partner with McKinsey & Co. and global leader of the McKinsey Health Institute. Eric Kutcher is a senior partner with McKinsey & Co. and the chair of McKinsey’s North America region. August 15, 2026, 5:30 AM ET Workers redo the lawn where the Salute to America 250 stage was as smoke from massive wildfires in Canada and Minnesota engulf the Washington, D.C. skyline, reducing visibility and casting a colored haze over the Washington Monument on July 17, 2026 in

August 15, 2026, 8:00 AM ET Streamer Adin Ross is part of a multibillion-dollar industry emerging from the "manosphere," a new report claims. The term “manosphere” first emerged in 2009, referring to a collection of blogs like The Spearhead and Return of Kings that promoted “men’s rights” and criticized the feminist movement, at times promoting violence against women. Over the next 15 years, the term evolved to encompass not just a generation of bloggers, but men no longer hiding behind

These snacks may lead to digestive discomfort if you eat them right before bed.

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon

A decade-long study looked at 27 metals in the brain – and found one surprising link to Alzheimer’s August 16, 2026 What nutrients does your body need? You might think of vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, iron – but lithium probably won’t cross your mind. The element is better known for its use in batteries and as a treatment for bipolar disorder, but it is also found in drinking water and plants, such as cabbage, potatoes and whole grains. This unassuming mineral might not be common knowledge, but

Experts say there’s a rise, but it’s not in the way you might think… words Bonnie McLaren Say the word affair, and you probably think of hotel rooms and forbidden relationships behind office doors in the workplace. But, for many, affairs are purely online, never leaving the virtual world. And now, a new survey has revealed it’s a shocking percentage which never amount to a proper meeting. According to IllicitEncounters.com – if the name wasn’t obvious enough, that’s a site for people looking for

No matter how hard we try, remembering anything that happened to us before the age of, say, 3 or 4 years old feels impossible. Even memories before 7 years old feel hazy and fragmented.

Here's how to measure (and fix) your neuroticism score August 15, 2026 Every week around the world, millions of people play lotteries, desperately hoping to win the jackpot that will bring them happiness… or so they think. Others browse dream homes and imagine the contentment they’d find in them, or scan job listings or swipe dating apps, always craving that one change in life that will make everything better. And yet what psychology research shows us is that all these external factors matter

A recent trial of an experimental gene therapy significantly lowered participants’ ‘bad’ cholesterol after just one injection August 15, 2026 A one-off treatment could lead to a cure for high cholesterol, according to medical researchers in London. In an early-stage clinical trial, a single dose of a new experimental therapy cut levels of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol by up to 62 per cent and kept them low for up to a year, raising hopes that patients could one day avoid taking daily medication for the

"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030." It’s a well-established fact that the Earth has been warming ever since the advent of industrialization. While climate skeptics have traditionally argued that the timing of this is merely a coincidence — that burning huge amounts of fossil fuels isn’t a significant factor contributing to long-term climate change — a new piece of research

What could possibly go wrong? In case you weren’t already feeling paranoid about how AI is shaping our future, scientists for the first time have used an AI model to create new and viable viruses that have never been seen in nature. Before you panic, the work, detailed in a study published in the journal Science, involved creating viruses that only target bacteria and are harmless to humans. Bacteriophages, as they’re called, are an important medical intervention for targeting drug-resistant

It's an extremely infectious virus — for people reckless enough not to get the shot. Even notorious anti-vaxxer and US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr had to urge families to vaccinate their children against measles last week. Despite being an entirely preventable disease thanks to a highly effective vaccine that has been widely available since the 1960s, cases of measles have skyrocketed in recent years, facilitated by a White House that’s declared war on scientific research, made a mess

It's worth a shot! In something like five billion years from now, our Sun is expected to run out of hydrogen fuel, expanding into a red giant that will eventually either engulf the Earth or send it spiraling outwards, an all but guaranteed end of all life on our pale blue dot. But there may be a way for humanity to survive past the Sun’s demise even without having to leave our planet, as independent researcher Gabriel Harry outlines in a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the

Shredded lettuce? We've got jacked lettuce now, kid. Scientists have finally created what might be the only thing that can get meatheads to eat their veggies: protein lettuce. By literally shooting pig genes into the chloroplasts of lettuce and tobacco cells, an international team of researchers were able to grow produce that contained the animal protein myoglobin, they report in a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Is this the pathway to the next ridiculous protein-

Gliomas are malignant brain tumors that originate from glial cells, which do not produce electrical impulses like neurons but instead support neurons by maintaining their structure and function. They are the most common form of brain cancer in adults and hijack normal neuronal signaling, especially the protein neuroligin-3 (NLGN3), released by active nerve cells, to fuel their own growth and spread into healthy brain tissue. Researchers wanted to uncover how NLGN3 interacts with glioma cells and

Sativa and indica are the two main types of cannabis. Hybrid cannabis is a combination of both sativa and indica. Sativa has a higher THC content, so it's more energizing, while indica has a higher CBD content and makes you feel calm and relaxed.

Recently, I’ve noticed that my seated posture I naturally gravitate towards—legs crossed, back slightly hunched—isn’t doing me any favors. And I’m not just talking about my back or my circulation.

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There are a lot of wellness coaches in the world who base their advice solely on vibes, but not Vancouver-based author Catherine Roscoe Barr.

Professor Tim Spector reveals the simple daily habits that research suggests can make the biggest difference to your health after 50

Outfitting cells in "invisibility cloaks" may offer an easier, less damaging treatment pathway for people with diabetes undergoing cell therapy, according to researchers at Penn State.

AI-based "tissue clocks" can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine (LBI-NetMed) at the University of Vienna showed. By analyzing more than 25,000 tissue samples across 40 tissue types, their study reveals that organs age at different rates throughout life and that these changes can even be detected from blood

Your biological age isn't fixed, and that's good news for your brain health