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Marijuana as medicine: Everything you need to know...
Support for medical cannabis has skyrocketed in recent years, but when does it actually help? Here's...
What are solid-state batteries and why do we need ...
Batteries containing solid electrolytes have many theoretical benefits, but a technique to manufactu...
Stunning image of how signals move through the hea...
A computer-generated image mapping the thousands of muscle cells that make up the wall of the heart ...
Deforestation increased in 2022 despite pledges to...
The world is going “in the wrong direction” on forests, say campaigners. But some countries have red...
How much does your immune system weigh? Now we hav...
An adult human's immune system is made up of more than 1 trillion cells. In total, it weighs around ...
GPT-4 gave advice on planning terrorist attacks wh...
OpenAI’s GPT-4 advised on committing terrorism and financial fraud when requests were translated int...
Your ultimate guide to ultra-processed food – how ...
Highly processed foods, from pizza to bread, are said to be seriously bad for your health. Here is a...
Extensive melting of West Antarctic ice sheet now ...
Ocean modelling suggests coastal cities around the world need to start preparing for several metres ...
On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped I...
Some 3500 salmon have escaped from a fish farm pen in Iceland and now the hunt is on to catch them b...
The moon is 40 million years older than we thought...
A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 mis...
Two beguiling books show how mathematics is revolu...
Enjoy Piero Martin’s The Seven Measures of the World, stories about measurement, and explore Four Wa...
Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the...
More than 20 US states have now legalised recreational cannabis, but the devastating effects of proh...
Mysterious rotation trick makes magnets float in t...
A few years ago, researchers discovered that a rapidly rotating magnet will cause other nearby magne...
Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent usin...
The eagerly awaited finding comes from the first randomised trial of putting HEPA filter machines in...
Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated ...
Analysis of DNA from human remains up to 37,000 years old shows that more infectious diseases jumped...
Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion...
Some biological cells swim freely in a way that apparently breaks one of Newton’s laws of motion – b...
UK’s fastest supercomputer will be built in a car ...
Isambard-AI will contain about 5000 graphics processing units, making it 10 times as powerful as the...
We forget details when our brain picks the wrong t...
Scientists have identified the brain mechanisms behind why we often misremember small details, such ...
