Science
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Is this book the ultimate guide for getting babies to sleep? Sort of
Does napping more during the day lead to a better night’s sleep for babies? Westend61 GmbH/Alamy How Babies SleepHelen Ball…
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Dark chocolate is rich in flavanols. Does that make it a health food?
Dark chocolate is high in antioxidant compounds Gabi Musat/500px/Getty Images When in the depths of a YouTube rabbit hole, I…
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Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch
Archaeologists excavate part of the medieval wall system in Mongolia Gideon Shelach-Lavi et al. 2025 Long before the Great Wall…
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Test of AI weather forecasts shows they miss extreme storms
Weather forecasts based on AI are faster and sometimes more accurate than traditional ones, but they may miss rare and…
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What does neuroscience say about manifestation?
First popularised by the bestselling New Age book The Secret, manifestation has remained a cultural phenomenon for decades, championed by…
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How does the brain create imagination?
This article is part of a special series exploring the radical potential of the human imagination. Read more here. Unlike…
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We’re about to unlock the secrets of ancient human brains
Brains preserved for hundreds of years can contain intact proteins Alexandra Morton-Hayward It is now possible to obtain proteins from…
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Massive glacier collapse triggers landslide that buries Swiss village
The Birch glacier caused an avalanche of ice, snow, water and rocks as the leading edge collapsed JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A…
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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak
The skeleton of a sabre-toothed cat chrisstockphotography/Alamy Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits…
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How visualisation sets you up for success by changing your cognition
Imagining performing a specific action is a technique used to great effect by sportspeople ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images This…
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