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“Humans, like most mammals, tend to shut down in really frightening situations for which they have no training or prior experience. Researchers call it negative panic. People do nothing. They shut down.”

What can you do to support your health during menopause? “If exercise were a drug, that would be the one thing that we would be giving to everybody.”

The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.

“The physics of the universe doesn’t predict the emergence of biology.” Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin explains how inanimate matter becomes evolutionary: