US Regulators Who Warned About Sweet Vapes Now Plan Faster Approvals
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to speed up approvals for new vapes, Reuters reported on September 23, 2026, even though the agency warned in March…
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What Your Body Does While You Sleep
An MIT team enlarged the brain's overnight cleaning waves by playing 50-millisecond pink-noise bursts to 14 sleeping adults, MIT News reported September 9, 2026, a sign the still…
Teen Takeovers Turn Violent Across U.S. Cities
Teen gatherings organized on social media turned deadly over the weekend of July 4, 2026, killing a 19-year-old in Pensacola and wounding nine more in Raleigh as police…
Why We Forget Our Baby Years May Come Down to the Brain Rewiring Itself
Brain studies published in 2026 flip a long-held idea: adults forget their earliest years not because babies fail to form memories, but because the growing brain later rewires…
Pop Songs Get Sadder, but No One Warns the Listeners
References to suicide in top American rap songs jumped from zero to 12 percent between 1998 and 2018, even as the music industry’s only content warning stayed anchored…
MDMA-Assisted Therapy Cuts PTSD Symptoms but FDA Still Says No
Phase 3 trial data showing 67% of MDMA-treated PTSD patients lost their diagnosis has pushed psychedelic research into mainstream medicine, even as federal regulators rejected the first formal…
Putting Feelings Into Words Calms the Brain, New Studies Show
Neuroscientists charted a new biology of language in 2026, finding that putting feelings into words triggers neurotransmitter release and quiets the amygdala, even as fresh evidence shows the…
