Coffee gets the bowels moving and may reduce constipation: regular coffee drinkers have more muscle contractions in the colon, a wider variety of gut bacteria and a more acidic small intestine, finds a study of 61 healthy adults, 50 of whom swallowed a wireless sensor capsule to track their gut. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1151101 https://redd.it/1xtfinl @rnerds

Data centres are among the world’s fastest growing electricity consumers. An analysis of more than 9,000 facilities worldwide links the AI-era expansion of data centres to delayed coal plant retirements and around 2 Gt of additional carbon dioxide emissions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02794-8 https://redd.it/1xtenmd @rnerds

Evolutionary dynamics of collective behavior across the tree of ray-finned fishes https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2611720123 https://redd.it/1xt2fea @rnerds