Science
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How monitoring your sweat could reveal the state of your health
Your sweat holds a lot of information about the state of your health Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Wow, you’re quite salty,”…
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An asteroid will dramatically burn up in Earth’s atmosphere today
Map showing the location where an asteroid’s fireball will be visible in Siberia ESA A dramatic but harmless spectacle will…
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Why do Ozempic and Wegovy seem to treat everything?
It is rare that a drug becomes a household name and even rarer for one to become a superstar, but…
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Why surrounding your plants with crushed eggshells won’t deter slugs
Broken eggshells around young plants … but will they stop the slugs? BIOSPHOTO/Alamy For as long as I have been…
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When, and where, did the covid-19 pandemic really begin?
People carrying out disinfection work at a market in Wuhan, where covid-19 is thought to have originated, in March 2020…
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Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future
Drilling for ice cores helps reveal the health of the Antarctic Nerilie Abram If all our fear and uncertainty over…
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Temporary scalp tattoo can be used to record brain activity
Tattoos printed onto a person’s scalp can detect electrical activity in the brain and carry signals to a recording device…
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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy There is something strange about Earth. A few billion years ago, a process started here that…
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Chatbot gives medical advice to hundreds of users in largest trial yet
Some of Alan’s app users got answers to their medical queries from an AI chatbot miniseries/Getty Images A French health…
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Heatwaves are surpassing the extremes predicted by climate models
The UK experienced a record-breaking heatwave in July 2022 DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images We should brace for worse-than-expected heatwaves…
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