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July’s heatwave was made 1000 times more likely by...
Climate change made the heatwaves in North America and Europe at least 1000 times more likely and th...
GPT-4: Is the AI behind ChatGPT getting worse?
The AI that powers ChatGPT appears to be performing less well at mathematical problems than it was j...
Your hands are probably about twice as heavy as yo...
Experiments show that people consistently underestimate the weight of their own hands – a perceptual...
Psychedelics show promise for treating anorexia in...
Small studies suggest that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, may reduce the ...
The slippery quest to invent a safer, more effecti...
Concerns over chemical sunscreens harming coral reefs and maybe even our health are inspiring a new ...
Most plant-based milks have less protein and calci...
Plant-based milks made from almonds, oats, rice and soya beans generally contain fewer nutrients tha...
8 healthy habits linked to living decades longer
A study of more than 700,000 people found that adopting eight healthy habits by age 40 could extend ...
Why is Twitter becoming X and should you move to T...
Elon Musk is once more plunging Twitter into turmoil, this time by changing its very identity
Fears of record-breaking El Niño event this year r...
We don't yet know how strong the developing El Niño climate pattern will be, but even a weak one ris...
Rare flower makes fake bee blood to lure pollinati...
Jackal flies usually feed on dead bees, but a South African plant entices them by smelling like bee ...
Earth is coated in ancient space dust that could b...
A 33-million-year-old layer of Earth's crust is laced with helium-3, which is normally only found in...
Your genes may influence how much fruit, fish or s...
Nearly 500 regions of the human genome appear to directly impact your dietary intake by affecting pe...
Revealed: The five foods that are key to maintaini...
Fruits and vegetables contain prebiotics, which act as a food source for gut microbes and may boost ...
Ancient utensils bear traces of 2000-year-old Viet...
Remnants of eight spices were found on a sandstone slab from an archaeological site in Vietnam, show...
The Other Pandemic review: Can smart reframing fig...
James Ball’s clever take on conspiracy theories is to see them as public health emergencies. But wil...
NASA probably discovered quakes on Mars in the 197...
The Viking 1 and 2 Mars probes looked for evidence of quakes on Mars, but failed to find anything de...
Deepfake videos create false memories – but so do ...
After watching deepfake movie clips that inserted Will Smith into The Matrix or put Chris Pratt in t...
Reaching net zero will cost billions more due to i...
It is vital that we clean up our energy sources and shift away from fossil fuels, but rising interes...
