Weekly: Does loneliness really cause ill health?; A time-travelling photon; The supermassive mystery of early black holes
Episode 268 Research has long linked loneliness to surprising health conditions, including diabetes and some cancers. The assumption has been that loneliness in some way causes these issues, perhaps through increased stress or inflammation. But in a study of tens of thousands of people’s biomedical data, that link has…
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