Less than 4 minutes of vigorous exercise a day could halve your dementia risk
Bursts of vigorous physical activity, such as carrying heavy shopping or rushing for the bus, seem to have a significant effect on our brain health and demen...
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Parkinson’s may be driven by ‘vicious cycle’ that disrupts brain waste drainage
Parkinson's disease is linked to toxic protein clumps and disrupted brain waste removal, which may feed off each other, causing the condition to progress
Hubble Space Telescope is falling to Earth – should NASA save it?
The Hubble Space Telescope faces a fiery and fatal re-entry to Earth's atmosphere sometime around 2032, but NASA is asking the private sector for ideas to ke...
A robot called GIMLI will explore a lunar cave for a future moon base
The race to build a moon base is ramping up. Columnist Robin George Andrews explores how NASA is preparing by sending a cave-hunting robot ahead of humans
The economic benefits of the covid vaccines may be double what we thought
The global health and economic benefits of the covid-19 vaccines were thought to have reached up to $38 trillion in their first year, but a new analysis sugg...
Tomb in Siberia reveals humans were using cannabis 2800 years ago
Psychoactive compounds have been found in a hair from a Scythian tomb in Siberia, providing the earliest direct evidence of cannabis being used as a drug
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Google shouldn’t be pressuring schools to use its AI
Google has said schools can’t have access to its search engine without AI, even in schools where AI use is being banned. Columnist Jacob Aron says the tech g...
Evidence of active volcanoes on Mars may boost chances of finding life
Recent fractures on the surface of Mars and gases detected by an orbiter probe provide some of the strongest evidence yet that the planet is volcanically active
Microplastics may be changing the colour of the Pacific Ocean
Satellites show that the ocean around a gyre of plastic detritus in the Pacific is brightening and changing colour, with the most likely explanation being mi...
Marginal oil and gas wells have outsized pollution impact
Low-producing oil and gas wells in the US account for 5 per cent of national oil and gas production but produce 40 per cent of the industry's methane emissions
