Science
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Evidence is growing that microbes in your mouth contribute to cancer
Scientists may have found another reason to prioritise dental hygiene skynesher/Getty Images Mounting evidence suggests that the microbes in our…
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Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but it won't work
Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good…
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A personal investigation into the crisis of men's mental health
The issue of men’s dangerously bottled-up emotions finds a fresh and personal voice in Silent Men, a documentary that is…
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Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?
Bathed in a ghostly purple-red light, these floating lettuces are barely distinguishable from those grown outdoors, but require one-tenth as…
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COP29 host Azerbaijan faces climate disaster as Caspian Sea dries up
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, but falling water levels could…
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COP29: Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them
A methane plume at least 4.8 kilometres long billows into the atmosphere south of Tehran, Iran NASA/JPL-Caltech The world has…
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Droidspeak: AI models work together faster when they speak their own language
Do you speak AI? Shutterstock/Ole.CNX Microsoft has created an artificial language that allows AI models to talk to each other…
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There’s a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study
A person in a gorilla suit can be easy to miss if you are focusing on something else Skully/Alamy When…
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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans
A reconstruction of the famous hominin Lucy Frank Nowikowski/Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about…
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A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle
The brightest white spots and the red arc are six images of the same quasar created by the lensing effect…
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