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Your Morning Coffee Might Be Protecting Your Brain

18 Sep 2026

Coffee is everywhere, and so are the debates around it. Does it stunt growth? Ruin sleep? Boost performance? There’s no shortage of caffeine discourse. But today’s topic is one worth paying...

The Organ That “Proved” That Everything Is Connected

4 Sep 2026

Science is elastic. Its findings can be stretched to sell useless gadgets and to sow mistrust. Often, this distortion of the truth is done outside of academia by merchants of doubt, spiritual...

The Wild Theory That Alzheimer’s Is a Plumbing Issue

20 Aug 2026

The man who developed a surgery to treat Alzheimer’s disease has been detained by Chinese authorities for a year and we don’t know why.

Not All Scientific Papers Advance Science

17 Jul 2026

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

“Talk to Me in French, Talk to Me in Spanish”: Exploring the Benefits of Bilingualism

24 Apr 2026

Despite not being bilingual myself, from growing up in New York City, to my undergraduate days spent in Montreal, to now calling Prague home, I have always been immersed in bi- and multilingual...

Lithium For Alzheimer’s Disease?

3 Sep 2025

Mention lithium and you likely conjure up an image of lithium batteries or a medication to treat bipolar disease. But researchers are now looking at another aspect of lithium. The possibility that...

Your Blood Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease

23 May 2025

My first laboratory job was right after earning my Master’s degree, and it was on a research project on Alzheimer’s disease. I had to test DNA samples from participants for a particular form of the...

Will Taking Benadryl as a Sleep Aid Give Me Dementia?

16 Feb 2024

It took me by surprise. The claim was made on TikTok by a very popular dermatologist, Dr. Charles Puza, and was picked up by BuzzFeed. Puza grew concerned when many of his patients confessed to...

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