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Virtual Earth-sized telescope shows how science is changing

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It’s the first large physics collaboration bringing together perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities

Epigenetic or social factors – what predicts health and aging better?

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Why sleep is so important for your fitness

Ian Walshe,Emma Sweeney

How your brain decides what to think

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On-demand male contraceptive found effective in early trial

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This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project shows a fossil hippo skeleton and associated Oldowan artifacts at the Nyayanga site in southwestern Kenya in July 2016. Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back to around 2.9 million years ago, but who used them is a mystery, according to a  study published Thursday, February 9, 2023, in the journal Science.

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

Celebs tout ice baths, but science on benefits is lukewarm

Climate: Could moon dust keep Earth cool?

Regular physical activity helps to prevent and manage many chronic diseases. Popular ways to be physically active include walking, cycling, and playing sports.
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Children and teens aren’t doing enough physical activity - new study sounds a health warning

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Study finds how obesity triggers diabetes, may help prevent, delay disease

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Young infants also love “motherese”, a very musical, melodic and slow type of speech that adults often adopt when talking to babies. 

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A survey of over 800 million activities by the app Strava, which tracks people’s physical exercise, predicts most of these resolutions will be abandoned by January 19. Image for Representation.

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Sex inequality in workload persists both in the home and outside. Now , a study has given an evolutionary perspective on why women are more likely than men to be bearing a heavy work burden. Image for Representation

Women work harder than men – our anthropological study reveals why

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Scientists investigated whether the brain’s lobes evolved independently of each other, or whether evolutionary change in any one lobe appears to be necessarily tied to changes in others – that is, evidence the evolution of the lobes is “integrated”.

Human and Neanderthal brains have a surprising ‘youthful’ quality in common, new research finds

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Physical activity guidelines recommends 150 minutes of moderately intense exercise a week, as well as at least two muscle strengthening exercise sessions per week. Image for Representation.

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Scientists compared measurements of brain cell activity in an animal performing a working memory task with the output of various computer models representing two theories of the underlying mechanism for holding information in mind. Image for Representation.

Not neurons, but synapses, form working memory, 'hold' info : Study

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A single nucleotide mutation in the GNB1 gene that makes one of the G-proteins, the “Gβ1 protein,” causes Encephalopathy. Image for Representation.

Researchers from India, Israel, US trying to develop drug to treat rare disease 'GNB1 Encephalopathy'

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In this 2012 image provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a technician reviews an optic inside the preamplifier support structure at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, was decades in coming, with scientists able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it for the first time.

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