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Subject: Educating parents about childhood illnesses | Did fungi give mammals an evolutionary edge? | Blood Falls origin
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'Even when knowledge improves, emotional anxiety does not easily disappear'

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August 4, 2026

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'Even when knowledge improves, emotional anxiety does not easily disappear': Pediatrician Dr. Masahiko Sakamoto on educating parents about childhood illnesses

Parents may struggle to learn all there is to know about children's health. A pediatrician in Saku, Japan, has made it his mission to help.

'A silent pandemic': How Japan is curbing antibiotic resistance, $5 at a time

Question of the Day

Which celestial spectacle that will appear in the sky Aug. 12 is getting skywatchers excited?

(Learn the answer here)

A solar eclipse

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower

Venus reaching dichotomy

All the above

History & Archaeology

Ancient bullets reveal where a Roman camp hid in the Pyrenees of Spain before being ambushed

Researchers found the remains of a Roman camp from 39 B.C. that was ambushed by locals in what's now Catalonia, Spain.

Your Body

'Poop pills' may ease insomnia by reprogramming the gut microbiome, early study hints

Reprogramming the gut microbiome with fecal microbiota transplants could reduce the amount of time people with insomnia spend awake.

Planet Earth

Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be

Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.

Animals

Did fungi give mammals an evolutionary edge after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit? New evidence revives a provocative hypothesis

ANALYSIS | A revived hypothesis argues that a fungus-filled world after the Chicxulub asteroid impact may have given mammals an evolutionary edge. The idea could reshape how scientists think about mass extinctions, but it is still controversial.