FOUND: 3 - What They Never Told You

5 Fasting Mistakes That Slow Your Metabolism and Make You Gain Weight Instead of Losing It

Eating Too Little for Too LongA 2022 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that extreme caloric restriction during fasting windows causes the body to down-regulate its resting metabolic rate within days, not weeks. The body reads a severe deficit as a famine signal. Muscle tissue breaks…

Times Life · Jul 13

Why Bee Populations Face Extinction: The Decline, the Pesticides, and the Food We Stand to Lose

The Scale of What Is Already GoneA single honeybee colony can contain up to 80,000 workers. In the United States alone, beekeepers lost an estimated 45.5% of managed honeybee colonies in 2022 to 23, according to the Bee Informed Partnership, one of the highest annual losses on record. Europe has…

Times Life · Jul 10

How Monarch Butterflies Use the Sun as a Compass to Navigate 4,000 Kilometres of Migration

A Clock Inside the AntennaThe monarch butterfly does not simply fly toward the sun. That would leave it hopelessly off course as the sun arcs across the sky from east to west. Instead, the butterfly compensates for the sun's movement by running it against an internal clock, a circadian timer…

Times Life · Jul 9

America's Yellowstone ravens don't follow wolves to find food; scientists found they navigate to places where wolves are most likely to leave fresh carcasses, even when no wolves are present

Ravens, long thought to simply follow wolves for meals, exhibit remarkable memory and planning. New research reveals these intelligent birds revisit known kill sites independently, demonstrating sophisticated spatial memory and foraging strategies. They travel significant distances to these reliable food sources, showcasing a deeper understanding of their environment than previously…

The Times of India · Jul 4

Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China's 'Great Green Wall' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved

July 4, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

LiveScience · Jul 4

The Ancient Vedic Breathwork Practice That Rewires the Anxious Mind Better Than Therapy

You Have Been Breathing Wrong Your Entire LifeNot incorrectly, exactly. But shallowly. Quickly. In the chest, not the belly. When anxiety arrives, your breath shortens before your mind has even named what it's afraid of. The body knows first. This is the thing pranayama understood before there was a word…

Times Life · Jul 3

Scientists propose launching a giant 'airbag' into space to protect us from solar superstorms ‪— and experts say it's 'quite feasible'

A new study suggests creating a satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could reduce the impacts of the worst solar storms by more than 50%. The novel plan, which involves dumping gas into the magnetosphere, could be the only way to directly protect ourselves from dangerous space weather, experts say.

LiveScience · Jul 1

The Salem witch trials explained: How fear, fungus and panic led to the deaths of 19 innocent people

In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in Salem Village, Massachusetts. They screamed, threw objects, contorted their bodies, complained of being bitten and pinched by invisible hands, and reported seeing spectral figures that no one else could see.…

The Times of India · Jul 1

Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

LiveScience · Jun 27

Flowering plants may have recruited dinosaurs long before birds or mammals, with hundreds of fossil fruits revealing an ancient seed-spreading strategy

Fossil discoveries in New Mexico reveal that flowering plants were producing large, animal-attracting fruits millions of years earlier than previously believed, potentially as far back as the age of dinosaurs. This challenges the long-held scientific view that such complex reproductive strategies only emerged after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. The…

The Economic Times · Jun 26