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AI pop-ups can help you stop doomscrolling on your phone

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 3:05pm
An AI program can learn from smartphone users' behaviours in order to send timely pop-up reminders about when to close attention-grabbing apps. The system effectively reduced how often people opened apps such as TikTok
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Long covid linked to signs of ongoing inflammatory responses in blood

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:00pm
People with long covid after a serious covid-19 infection have raised levels of many immune molecules in their blood. Better understanding how these molecules can vary could lead to more targeted treatments
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Why you may have a stealth liver disease and what to do about it

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:00pm
One in three adults have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – often without knowing. Now we understand what causes this stealthy condition and how to reverse it
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Stone Age blades could have been used for butchery, not just hunting

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 7:40am
A modern butchery experiment using replicas of Stone Age tools raises new questions about how often prehistoric peoples hunted large animals such as bison or mammoths
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When is the next total solar eclipse visible from the UK?

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 3:00am
The next time a total solar eclipse will be visible from the UK is decades away, but there are other places nearby that will experience one sooner
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Cannabis use in pregnancy may raise children’s risk of ADHD and autism

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 3:00am
A study of more than 220,000 people found that cannabis use during pregnancy was associated with their children having roughly twice the risk of ADHD, autism and intellectual disability
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Eclipse 2024 live: Watch the full NASA broadcast – latest

Sun, 04/07/2024 - 1:00pm
The eclipse is about to begin. Totality will arrive at Mexico’s west coast around 11.07am local time, moving east until it leaves Newfoundland, Canada, around 5.16pm there
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5 solar eclipse activities to do with children

Sat, 04/06/2024 - 8:00am
From building an eclipse viewer to using the sun to pop balloons, here's a child-friendly activity guide for April's eclipse
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We finally know why Stephen Hawking's black hole equation works

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 5:00pm
Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in the 1970s, but it took physicists until now to figure out the quantum effects that make the formula work
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Suppressing wildfires is harming California’s giant sequoia trees

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 4:23pm
California’s rare sequoias rely on high heat to disperse their seeds, and efforts to reduce the size of wildfires may be damaging their ability to reproduce
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How a total solar eclipse in 1919 left physicists 'more or less agog'

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 3:57pm
One total solar eclipse changed physics forever – and even to this day these celestial phenomena are astonishing viewers and teaching us crucial lessons about the universe
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Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of right-handedness

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 11:00am
A popular idea links primates living on the ground with a tendency for right-handedness, but findings from urban langurs in India cast doubt on the idea
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The mathematician who worked out how to time travel

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 7:00am
Mathematics suggested that time travel is physically possible – and Kurt Gödel proved it. Mathematician Karl Sigmund explains how the polymath did it
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How mass bleaching has pushed the Great Barrier Reef to the brink

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 6:37am
Diving at One Tree Island in one of the most highly protected parts of the Great Barrier Reef reveals the shocking extent of the latest mass bleaching event
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The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and prospering

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 6:00am
Can cultivating positive behaviours and tweaking our lifestyles lead to healthier, happier lives – even longer lives? Discover the daily choices that may make the difference in a fascinating new book
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Eclipse 2024: When is it and where can I see it?

Fri, 04/05/2024 - 5:00am
North America will have a total solar eclipse on 8 April – here is where, when and how to view it safely
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Could an MRI scan make prostate cancer screening more accurate?

Thu, 04/04/2024 - 7:30pm
Combining PSA blood tests with MRI scans is making the screening less harmful, but it still should be targeted only at high-risk groups, such as men who are Black or have a family history of prostate cancer, says a new report
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Should we be worried about a bird flu pandemic in the US?

Thu, 04/04/2024 - 1:27pm
One person in the US has contracted bird flu after being exposed to dairy cows that have the virus, but experts say there is no immediate threat of a wider outbreak in people
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There are hints that dark energy may be getting weaker

Thu, 04/04/2024 - 1:00pm
The standard model of cosmology says that the strength of dark energy should be constant, but tentative hints are emerging that it may have weakened recently
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Why some songs make our heart swell and others give us butterflies

Thu, 04/04/2024 - 12:00pm
Where in our body we feel the physical sensation of hearing music seems to depend on how surprising the piece's chords are
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