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Mindfulness and genes: how much do we really know?
Can meditation change how our genes work? Some studies have found intriguing signs. How robust these findings are, how long the changes last, and what they mean for health remain unclear. Mindfulness trains us to pay attention to the present: sensations, breathing, and thoughts, observed without immediately judging them. In recent years, researchers have investigated whether this practice…
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Friends at First Sniff: The Invisible Chemistry of Friendship
With some people, we just click. It takes only a few minutes to feel a connection, as though we’ve known each other forever. We call it affinity, rapport, chemistry. But what if that chemistry were, at least partly, real? In 2022, a team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a study in Science Advances…
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Mothers, Sisters, and Allies: Female Sperm Whales Join Forces to Welcome a Newborn
Quando un capodoglio nasce in mare aperto, il primo respiro avviene quando il piccolo raggiunge la superficie. A quel punto il parto si conclude. Un di equipe scienziati operativi sul progetto CETI, hanno osservato, al largo della Dominica, che durante il parto di una capodoglia si era raccolto intorno a lei un intero gruppo. L’articolo…