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Newly-discovered immune hubs in our skull may keep our brain healthy
We may have clusters of immune cells at the back of our skull that help ward off conditions like brain cancer
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We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep
Two clusters of neurons in the mouse brain seem to create the drive to get some shut-eye, potentially hinting at a new target for sleep diso
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5-year-old brain organoids can sense the passing of time
Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a sense of time g
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How wakeful rest may boost brain power in a manner similar to sleep
To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping neurons can improv
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Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancer
People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections
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AI could lower the cost of designing more efficient airplane wings
AI agents devised a way to reduce friction of an airplane wing model even without access to a costly computer simulation
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World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest
'Official' projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly underestimate future
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The surprising upsides of living in a reality that repeats for eternity
Having faced the prospect that our minds are random fluctuations in a dead universe, quantum cosmologist Sean Carroll suggests that we may b
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Female clones created from the blood of male mice
A CRISPR-based tool can perform sex reversal on male mouse embryos, reliably turning them into healthy females – a feat that could be valuab
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Postbiotic could reduce the risk of brain damage after a concussion
Giving mice a byproduct produced by gut bacteria reduced their risk of severe brain damage and cognitive difficulties after a traumatic brai
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Did humans evolve to be active throughout the day and night?
Evidence from hunter-gatherers suggests humans aren't diurnal but cathemeral, with bouts of activity at nighttime – a sleep pattern similar
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Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate
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Feeding our books into generative AI risks creating a cultural void
When we put our literature, games and films into AI models, we risk replacing our cultural history with a mishmash of auto-generated works.
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Physicists may have solved a 30-year mystery over missing neutrinos
Since the 1990s, researchers have wondered if unexpected results from gallium-based neutrino detectors are a sign of a new kind of particle,
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Britain’s only desalination plant remains idle during drought
Water flow in the river Thames has dropped low enough to warrant the use of England’s only large-scale desalination plant, but it hasn’t bee
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Why women with ADHD feel overwhelmingly ‘controlled’ by their hormones
People with ADHD are unusually sensitive to hormone shifts. Psychiatrists have started to pay attention, creating strategies to address the
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Our blood’s body clock may be causing anaemia cases to be missed
Blood tests may give different results depending on when in the day, or the year, they are taken, which could result in people missing out o
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Weightlifting makes older women leaner, stronger and more mobile
Lifting at least 50 kilograms twice a week improved older women's muscle mass, mobility and balance
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Quantum computing may be facing a replication crisis
A review of thousands of scientific papers about quantum computers finds that most don’t provide codes that can be tested on independent dev
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Rogue hacking AIs have changed the cybersecurity landscape
Attackers with no technical skills can now use AI models to find and exploit loopholes quickly and they can deploy them on a massive scale,
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Test moderators use AI-generated writing to judge literacy standards
To cut the cost of key stage 2 assessments, a UK government project proposes to use scripts generated by ChatGPT instead of real children's
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THC in cannabis may reduce nightmares in people with PTSD
A drug made up of THC, the main psychoactive component of cannabis, reduced the severity and incidence of nightmares in people with PTSD
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Fishers detonate a bomb every hour on one Indonesian coral reef
The use of explosives to kill fish is widespread across the tropics, and acoustic monitoring in an Indonesian archipelago detected more than
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How bad is the UK drought and how long will it continue?
Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and severe wildfires – h
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