Julie Majid, Author at petsnpals.co

An Engineer Claims a Breakthrough That Could Defy Earth’s Gravity

January 9, 2026 by Julie Majid

A controversial idea is forcing physicists to respond.

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In late 2023 and through 2024, a claim began circulating well beyond engineering circles. Salvatore Pais, a former aerospace engineer whose work has previously drawn attention inside the U.S. defense research ecosystem, asserted that a new class of engineered systems could manipulate inertia itself. If correct, the implications would reach far beyond flight. Gravity, long treated as untouchable outside theory, would become something engineers could influence. Scientists are cautious, but they are no longer ignoring the claim.

Why Doctors Are Rethinking How Much Sleep We Actually Need

January 8, 2026 by Julie Majid

The old sleep rules are starting to bend.

For decades, sleep advice sounded simple and firm. Get seven to eight hours or expect problems. Doctors printed it on pamphlets and repeated it in exam rooms. Over the last ten to fifteen years, that certainty has started to crack. Large population studies, sleep lab research, and real world data from millions of tracked nights are telling a more complicated story. Sleep still matters deeply, but the amount appears less universal than once believed. Doctors are now reexamining what healthy sleep actually looks like.

A Common Health Assumption May Be Quietly Harming Millions

January 8, 2026 by Julie Majid

What once sounded safe now raises new questions.

For years, certain health beliefs were repeated so often they became background noise. Doctors mentioned them briefly. Wellness articles reinforced them. Most people followed along without thinking twice. New research now suggests one widely accepted assumption may be doing subtle damage over time. The harm is rarely immediate, dramatic, or obvious. Instead, it accumulates quietly, showing up later as fatigue, metabolic issues, inflammation, or misdiagnosis. What makes this shift unsettling is not that advice was malicious, but that it was incomplete.

10 Ways Millennials Are Quitting Hustle Culture and Employers Are Losing Control

January 8, 2026 by Julie Majid

Work still matters, but obedience is fading.

Hustle culture once promised stability, status, and eventual freedom in exchange for sacrifice. Millennials followed the rules longer than they are often credited for, entering adulthood during recessions, rising housing costs, and ballooning student debt. Then the pandemic collapsed the illusion that loyalty guaranteed safety. Since then, workplace researchers, economists, and mental health professionals have documented a shift that keeps accelerating. Millennials are not disengaging. They are renegotiating power, redefining effort, and quietly dismantling the leverage employers once assumed was permanent.

New Data Shows America’s Infrastructure Is Failing in Predictable Places

January 8, 2026 by Julie Majid

The weak spots keep appearing in the same regions.

For decades, infrastructure failures were treated as isolated mishaps. A bridge collapse felt local. A power outage felt temporary. New nationwide datasets now tell a different story. When engineers, insurers, and federal agencies map breakdowns together, the same locations keep resurfacing. Failures track age, climate stress, funding patterns, and political neglect with unsettling consistency. Roads, pipes, grids, and flood controls are not failing at random. They are deteriorating where warning signs have existed for years, often in places residents have been quietly reporting problems all along.