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Contagious Cancer That Outlived Patient Zero By 11,000 Years

Oct 7, 2026

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17 min read

Contagious Cancer That Outlived Patient Zero By 11,000 Years

Somewhere in North America, around 11,000 years ago, a dog developed a tumor. That in itself is nothing unusual; animals get cancer, and so do we. What happened next is where the story turns strange. That dog eventually died. Its tumor did not.

David Richards
David Richards
Can the Shingles Vaccine Help Protect Your Brain?

Sep 30, 2026

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13 min read

Can the Shingles Vaccine Help Protect Your Brain?

Shingles and dementia do not look related. One is a painful skin rash. The other is a slow decline in memory and thinking. Yet across a string of studies published since 2024, a pattern keeps showing up: people who get shingles face a higher risk of dementia later on, and people who get the shingles vaccine face a lower one.

David Richards
David Richards
The Red Pigment That May Protect Your Prostate

Sep 23, 2026

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13 min read

The Red Pigment That May Protect Your Prostate

The answer, according to a growing body of research, may involve a red pigment found in tomatoes. It is called lycopene, and it has attracted serious scientific attention as a potential ally against prostate cancer.

David Richards
David Richards
5 Surprising Signals Your Body Sends About Life Expectancy

Sep 16, 2026

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17 min read

5 Surprising Signals Your Body Sends About Life Expectancy

Some of the most reliable predictors of a longer life are hiding in plain sight, right in the way your body moves, stands, and holds itself up.

David Richards
David Richards
The Warning Sign Men Are Missing: What the bedroom might be telling you about your heart

Sep 9, 2026

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17 min read

The Warning Sign Men Are Missing: What the bedroom might be telling you about your heart

More striking still is the timing. Multiple prospective studies and reviews indicate that vasculogenic erectile dysfunction, the kind caused by compromised blood flow rather than anxiety or hormonal fluctuation, tends to appear roughly 2 to 5 years before a cardiac event or stroke.

David Richards
David Richards
Feel It in Our Bones

Sep 2, 2026

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11 min read

Feel It in Our Bones

Beyond the stress response, osteocalcin has been shown to help regulate metabolism, improve memory, and increase running speed and endurance. It reaches into multiple systems simultaneously, which points to something bigger than a single hormone doing a single job.

Jacob Rivera
Jacob Rivera
Your Ovaries Know More Than You Think

Aug 26, 2026

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12 min read

Your Ovaries Know More Than You Think

A team of researchers recently developed a 3D imaging technique that allowed them to look at ovarian tissue in a way that had never been done before, without slicing the tissue apart and losing its structure in the process. When they finally saw the whole picture, what they found there changed the way we understand what an ovary actually is.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
Your Thermometer Is Lying to You. And It Has Been Since 1851

Aug 19, 2026

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17 min read

Your Thermometer Is Lying to You. And It Has Been Since 1851

Here is a number worth questioning: 37°C. It is printed on thermometers, repeated in medical textbooks, and treated by doctors and patients alike as the definitive marker of a healthy human body. It is also, for a large proportion of modern adults, simply not accurate. Not even close.

David Richards
David Richards
Your Brain Might Not Be Done With You Yet

Aug 12, 2026

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11 min read

Your Brain Might Not Be Done With You Yet

A study out of the University of Cambridge is reshaping the way scientists think about brain development, and the number at the center of it is one that surprised me when I first read it. Thirty-two. That is roughly the age at which the brain appears to reach full maturity. Not eighteen. Not twenty-five. Thirty-two.

David Richards
David Richards
Why Women Feel Pain Longer: What a New Immune Discovery Could Change

Aug 5, 2026

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16 min read

Why Women Feel Pain Longer: What a New Immune Discovery Could Change

A study published in February 2026 in the journal Science Immunology by researchers at Michigan State University has, for the first time, identified a clear immunological mechanism behind the sex difference in pain duration. And it is not what most people would guess.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
The Brain That Never Learned to See And What It Tells Us About Mental Health

Jul 29, 2026

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14 min read

The Brain That Never Learned to See And What It Tells Us About Mental Health

Consider something that psychiatrists noticed more than 70 years ago, quietly at first, almost as a footnote. They were treating thousands of patients with schizophrenia and, across all those cases, something was conspicuously absent. Not one of those patients had been born blind. Not one.

David Richards
David Richards
Swedish Death Cleaning: The Responsible Art of Letting Go

Jul 22, 2026

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13 min read

Swedish Death Cleaning: The Responsible Art of Letting Go

It turns out the Swedish have a word for the alternative. They call it döstädning, death cleaning. I do not know if Swedes are renowned for being exceptionally literal, but a more palatable term would not have hurt. When you see the words Swedish Death Cleaning, you can read: next exciting stage of life decluttering. The name obscures what is actually a quiet and practical act of love.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
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