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5 personal care innovations that lived up to the hype in 2024

Plenty of personal care products—the treatments and gadgets that fill our medicine cabinets, home gyms, and vanities—promise innovation. Yet few actually deliver. Companies that craft cosmetics, supplements, fitness tools, and other wellness aids tend to go hard on buzzwords without putting in the research to make something truly new. That doesn’t mean there aren’t worthwhile, […]

World News

‘I wish he’d lived to see new Syria’: Crowds bury anti-Assad activist

Getty Images Mourners carried Mazen Al-Hamada’s coffin through the streets of Damascus on Thursday Warning: This article contains graphic details of torture “We gave our blood and soul to the revolution,” crowds chanted, as they carried Mazen Al-Hamada’s coffin through the streets of Damascus, draped in the green, white and black flag adopted by protesters […]

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The man who lived with no brain

How do you live in a world that makes no sense at all? How do you exist when every second of your life is an unsolvable puzzle, and the tiny bits you do manage to recognize can’t come out? That was the life of Lev Zasetsky, a man who suffered a brain injury fighting in […]

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1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species

In a fossil first, researchers have announced the discovery of 1.5 million-year-old footprints that prove two different pre-human species coexisted in Kenya. The tracks hint that the species may have interacted, raising new questions about the behavior of our ancestors. “I would expect the two species would have been aware of each other’s existence on […]