Science
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AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins
Adélie penguins in Antarctica Prof. Heather Lynch Artificial intelligence can help accurately map and track penguin colonies in Antarctica by…
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Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fits-all diet advice?
Each of us has a different metabolic response to eating the same bread Matthew Ashmore/Alamy Consider two slices of bread,…
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Hormone-balancing diets: Can we really balance our hormones by eating certain foods?
Spend more than 5 minutes on Instagram or TikTok – especially as a woman of a certain age – and…
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Fermented foods: Are things like kimchi and kombucha really good for your gut?
Shutterstock/Natasha Breen Humans have been fermenting food and drink for at least 13,000 years – and touting the health benefits…
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Quantum batteries could discharge more power than they store
Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can…
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The surprising truth about the health benefits of snacking
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images We are often told not to eat between meals, and there is a general perception that snacking…
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Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars
Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets…
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The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point
Plans to pave the Trans-Amazonian highway in Brazil could accelerate deforestation Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images Deforestation has pushed the Amazon…
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Could when you eat be as important as what you eat?
It is close to midnight and I am bingeing both on a Netflix show and leftovers from the fridge. I…
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AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move
A driverless car in downtown Los Angeles Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images The artificial intelligence systems that control driverless…
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