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How worried should you be about spending too much ...
Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But...
What the family drama of interbreeding polar and g...
A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much t...
Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning
Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numera...
Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has ...
Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for thos...
Are we living in a simulation? This experiment cou...
The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists...
Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries ke...
Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probabl...
Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immu...
There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of...
Hunter-gather groups are much less egalitarian tha...
There is a widespread belief that altruism and equality drive social behaviour in traditional hunter...
Quantum experiment settles a century-old row betwe...
Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, an...
How Australian teens are planning to get around th...
From legal challenges to lesser-known apps, the teenagers of Australia are already preparing to push...
AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mea...
Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but, encouragingly, it seems tha...
Why is AI making computers and games consoles more...
The AI industry consumes vast amounts of energy, fresh water and investor cash. Now it also needs me...
Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death c...
Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian offici...
Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And wh...
Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the h...
Tigers seem to be bouncing back in remote Sumatran...
Camera traps in an area of the Leuser rainforest patrolled by NGOs spotted 17 tigers in 2023 and 18 ...
Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science ph...
Duelling prairie chickens, a snake-mimicking moth and a once-a-year sunrise at the South Pole featur...
Experimental vaccine prevents dangerous allergic a...
By blocking a molecule that pushes the immune system into overdrive, a vaccine protects mice from li...
Dogs may make us more caring and sociable by chang...
We know that pets influence our microbiome, but scientists have now found that having a dog seems to...
