Health
Qatar's New Scholarship Program Prepares Students for Life Beyond the Lecture Hall
The Zad Al-Mubta'ath program will combine academic advice with mental health, financial literacy, cultural guidance and digital security.
Jul 30, 2026
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13 stories for“wellbeing”
Lifestyle
One in Four American Adults Ate Every Meal Alone, and the Cost Is About the Same as Losing a Job
A study across 142 countries found that how often people share meals predicts wellbeing about as strongly as income or unemployment does. In the United States the share of adults eating every meal alone has risen more than 50 per cent since 2003.
Aug 29, 2026
Health
Digital Mindfulness at Work Is Moving From Wellness Advice to Management Practice
New research on mindful technology use reframes burnout as a work-design problem involving notifications, norms and control, not just an employee resilience problem.
Jul 24, 2026
Lifestyle
Houseplants Do Not Purify Your Air, and the Real Reason to Keep Them Is Better Than the Myth
A 1989 NASA experiment in sealed chambers became the most repeated claim in interior décor. In an actual room, ventilation removes pollutants far faster than plants can, and you would need an implausible indoor forest to compete.
Aug 21, 2026
Health
Slow Breathing Made People Take More Risks, Not Fewer, in a Berlin Brain-Scan Study
Forty-one volunteers who breathed with a long exhale accepted riskier bets for money in an MRI scanner, and those whose heart rhythm responded most showed the strongest reward activity in the brain. A neat result, a small sample, a lesson about calm.
Sep 8, 2026
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Ajman's Shorter Summer Workday Is a Real-World Productivity Experiment
Ajman government employees are working seven-hour summer days without reducing public-service expectations. The initiative offers a useful test of output, wellbeing and heat-aware work design.
Aug 1, 2026
Lifestyle
The People You Have Never Met Are the Ones Making You Lonely, and the Friends Are Not Helping
A nationally representative study of 1,512 American adults found those with the most social media contacts they had never met in person had more than double the odds of loneliness. Contacts who were close friends made no difference either way.
Aug 26, 2026
Health
Meditation Has Adverse Effects, and the People Most Likely to Meet Them Are the Ones Told It Cannot Hurt
Contemplative practice has real benefits and a real adverse event literature that wellness culture has quietly declined to read. In a survey of 1,370 regular meditators, 22 percent reported particularly unpleasant experiences.
Sep 4, 2026
Design
Biophilic Design for Small Apartments Starts With a View
Plants help, but small-space biophilic design also uses daylight, airflow, natural patterns and a visible relationship with weather and time.
Jul 28, 2026
Health
Saudi Healthcare’s Transformation Is Becoming Visible in Everyday Life
Better prevention, faster access and digitally connected care show how Vision 2030 can translate national reform into a healthier daily future.
Jul 28, 2026
Health
Yoga Nidra Is Not Sleep, and the Research on It Is Better Than the Research on Most Things Sold Beside It
A guided practice of lying still while systematically moving attention around the body. It has accumulated a real randomised trial literature for sleep, stress and anxiety, and a rebranded version has attracted claims that literature does not support.
Sep 4, 2026
Nutrition
The Carnivore Diet's Evidence Problem, Explained Plainly
All meat, no plants, and a wave of enthusiastic testimonials online. The actual research base behind the claims is nine small studies with no control group at all.
Apr 5, 2026
Lifestyle
More Companies Ordered People Back to the Office This Year, and the Best Studies Still Do Not Support It
A controlled trial found two days at home produced no measurable productivity loss and cut resignations by a third. A study of large listed firms found return to office mandates did not improve company value. Mandates increased anyway.
Aug 22, 2026
