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Overcrowding is associated with many other mental and physical health concerns.
Psychedelics can help uncover consciousness.
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We still don’t know a lot about how the networks of cells in the brain enable conscious experience.
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In the Japanese workplace, women face discrimination, restrictive behaviour and appearance codes and a lower glass ceiling than elsewhere. Only a profound cultural shift will change that.
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Bilinguals may struggle with hangman but they excel at remembering and categorising objects.
Springtails (Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus) are found in any damp soil.
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With more than one species for every person on the planet, soils are the most diverse habitat on Earth.
Yellow underwing moths were one of the species in the study.
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But pesticides and climate change are threatening moths’ future.
Anders Hayward and Conleth Hill in Adults.
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Kieran Hurley’s new play treads the familiar debate of millennial precarity versus boomer affluence with verve and insight.
Your chronological age and biological age may not be the same.
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Many factors such as smoking, how much your exercise and what foods you eat, can affect your biological age.
Sex isn’t just about penetration.
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Women have fewer orgasms than men. But this gap is cultural, not biological. Closing it is possible, both on a societal and personal level.
The wishbone pessary didn’t look comfortable
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Contraception today may not be perfect but it’s better than methods of the past.
Soaring wetland emissions of methane mirror those which accompanied previous abrupt changes in Earth’s climate.
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The last time methane in the air rose so fast, Greenland warmed by 10°C within decades.
The science behind rhyme, rhythm and repetition.
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Music creates powerful memories and emotional connections in our brains.
ACL injuries can happen while playing sports or even be caused by a fall.
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ACL injuries aren’t just a problem for professional athletes.
Ahmad Massoud (c) at a meeting of Afghan opposition leaders in Vienna, April 2023.
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Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan the west is not doing enough to help exiled leaders form a unified opposition.
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AI chatbots can be educational tools but still have many drawbacks.
Muon g2 experiment.
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New measurement of wobbling muons back up previous findings – potentially challenging the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Air pollution is linked with many health problems.
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Antibiotic resistance can affect anyone of any age.
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Britain’s most famous iconoclast presents a show of humour, beauty, and irreverence that reflects the complexities and contradictions in being human.
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MDMA and cocaine are known to speed up people’s perception of time, while LSD can induce a sense of timelessness.
The government, banks and other financial organisations are now dealing with fraud by using increasingly sophisticated detection methods.
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Fraud was up 25% in the UK in 2021/22.