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An Oxford trial found eight weeks of salsa cut PHQ-9 depression scores 2.45 points below a waitlist group in 18-to-24-year-olds. But per-class enjoyment ratings predicted who improved, suggesting the active ingredient may be scheduled pleasure, not dance.
The textbook version has tunas seizing the niche left by the K-Pg extinction. A new Yale phylogeny dates at least two of three endothermy origins to 10–15 million years after the impact, and the big body-size jump to 10.6 million years ago. The caveat: the branches are long enough that the traits could have appeared anywhere along them.
In 1,712 adults tracked more than 23 years by the ARIC study, frequent TV watching predicted shrunken frontal and Alzheimer’s-signature regions while frequent occupational sitting predicted the opposite. The difference held after adjusting for exercise.
Cambridge economists tracking 4,405 launches liken SpaceX’s grip to the East India Company’s, warning a near-monopoly has every reason to charge what the market bears even as underlying costs collapse.
Bows and maces kept turning up in royal women’s tombs at Dahshur, and no one could say whether they were props or kit. A reassessment of six skeletons found the archery signature — thickened upper-arm and grip muscles — matching the weapons each woman was buried holding.
An Echelon/Rockefeller survey of 2,000 voters found eight in ten prefer fixing foreign aid to killing it — including the survey’s most skeptical Trump-aligned voters. What most opposition rested on, the data suggest, was a wild overestimate of the cost: people guess 20 percent; it’s one.
Likweli is only the fifth new African monkey named in 75 years, and it split from its closest cousin 4–5 million years ago — the deepest divergence in the colobus family. Wide rivers and poor-soil forest appear to have fenced it into a range the size of a small city, where it’s already endangered.
The top 0.1 percent hold $1 of every $6 in US private wealth, much of it never taxed because they borrow against assets instead of selling. UC Berkeley’s Brian Galle, writing for the progressive Roosevelt Institute, proposes charging interest on deferred tax at the asset’s own rate of return — so holding forever no longer shrinks the bill.
Nearly 20 percent of veterans have used acid, a rate that survives every demographic control, in RAND’s first nationally representative survey — which also finds roughly half don’t know whether disclosing use could cost them their VA benefits.
Northwestern’s cerebellum-inspired memtransistor stays idle through normal beats and fires only at the unexpected, hitting 98 percent accuracy where standard AI was still at 70–80. The catch: only the devices were built — the surrounding network was simulated.
Dowry deaths have risen since the protest years — more than 6,500 in 2022 — even as the public mourning faded. In Public Culture, Kriti Kapila traces the silence to the 1955 reform that cut dowry loose from ritual and let it behave like a commodity.
A Nature Human Behaviour study of 31 million American workers finds party sorting at work now rivals sorting by gender. Whether it’s workers choosing, employers screening, or minorities leaving, the data can’t say — all four look the same.