Spend more than 5 minutes on Instagram or TikTok – especially as a woman of a certain age – and you are likely to meet a fit, attractive person showing you what they ate today. It is usually a bowl...
Shutterstock/Natasha Breen Humans have been fermenting food and drink for at least 13,000 years – and touting the health benefits for nearly as long. But despite our long history with them, we are only beginning to determine whether these foods...
When Texas passed a 2021 law banning nearly all abortions after detection of fetal heart activity—typically around five to six weeks of pregnancy—Jason Darr, a now 46-year-old Texan, began researching a procedure he’d considered off and on for years: a...
October 30, 20244 min readWhy Are Close Elections So Common?When voters decide between two alternatives, as is effectively the case in the U.S. presidential election, it usually comes down to a neck-and-neck race. Researchers can now explain this mathematicallyBy Manon...
Furthermore, identity as tied to militarization—whether through occupation of land or as a chosen identity such as Dora joining the armed forces—brought to mind the legacy of “mixed” children arising from military bases around the world, not just male soldiers...
October 30, 20242 min readFastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black HoleThis blazingly-fast star is shooting through the Milky Way with a planet in towBy Jonathan O'CallaghanHubble Space Telescope’s view of the dense region...
Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can gain more charge than was stored in the battery to begin with Source link...
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images We are often told not to eat between meals, and there is a general perception that snacking is unhealthy. But, as usual when it comes to food, temptation prevails. Snacking is very common, and increasingly so. In...
Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets Source link...
Plans to pave the Trans-Amazonian highway in Brazil could accelerate deforestationPhoto by DeAgostini/Getty Images Deforestation has pushed the Amazon to the very edge of a tipping point that would see it become a net source of CO2 and accelerate climate...
