Freezing bread causes the starches it contains to turn into resistant starches.
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Freezing bread can not only cut down on food waste, it may also have modest benefits for your health.
A restored wetland near Pflach, Austria.
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Two-thirds of conservation actions studied were found to benefit target ecosystems and species.
Galaxy cluster, left, with ring of dark matter visible, right.
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An exciting new experiment is being set up at Yale university in the US.
A protester holds a placard with a photo of late US airman Aaron Bushnell, who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
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There is a long history of self-immolation being used as a protest in the US – but that doesn’t stop such protests being regularly dismissed.
By 2023, one in nine children had tried vaping.
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Vaping is more common than cigarette smoking among young people but there are a variety of risks to users.
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It is difficult to distinguish between elephant and mammoth ivory.
Reporting from Gaza is extremely restricted, with international journalists only being allowed in when accompanied by the Israeli military.
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Israel continues to restrict international journalists access to Gaza, and Palestinian reporters are being killed.
Truong My Lan at her trial in Vietnam, April 2024.
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A recent corruption case in Vietnam has led to the owner of a bank being sentenced to death.
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First past the post tends to deliver the winning party more seats in parliament than they’d get under a truly proportional voting system – but this year is off the charts.
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In an effort to bring the Olympics to a wider and younger audience, breaking is the latest “sport” to make its debut at Paris 2024. But how will it work as a scored sport?
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Kourtney Kardashian Barker says she “pounds breast milk” to stop herself feeling sick – but are there really any proven health benefits for adult consumption of human milk?
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It is difficult to argue that online comments can amount to criminal offences that threaten public order.
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The link between ejaculation and prostate cancer explained.
The damage done: the aftermath of an airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, November 2023.
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AI is enabling a huge number of decisions about who to target. They are not always the right ones.
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UN human rights experts have warned that airlines transporting people to Rwanda could be complicit in human rights abuses.
Most smokers start in their teens.
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Smoking is the single greatest cause of ill health and death globally.
Exotic shorthair cats are popular in the US but they struggle with health problems.
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The genetic mutations responsible for the unusual physical features in animals can also cause great harm.
Microbes and algae on the seabed produce huge amounts of oxygen that often form bubbles.
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Marine species respond to ocean deoxygenation in different ways depending on where in the ocean they live.
Around ten million people in the UK experience migraines.
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In one trial, atogepant was shown to reduce the number of migraine days a person had each month by 30%.
The body of socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is discovered on the outskirts of Rome on August 16 1924, two months after his disappearance.
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One hundred years after the Italian opposition leader’s murder, documents long locked away at the London School of Economics could shed new light on Mussolini’s involvement in his death