New studies are showing ever more reasons to eat up your greensAlvarez/Getty Images When it comes to our diet, there is an ever-changing list of things touted as the key to better health: cutting out carbs, eating like a caveman or...
Loading up your plate has never seemed more complicated. Alongside appeals to avoid ultra-processed foods and “bad” fats, we are being bombarded by a growing array of sometimes conflicting dietary advice. Not only is it confusing, but it is hard...
Adélie penguins in AntarcticaProf. Heather Lynch Artificial intelligence can help accurately map and track penguin colonies in Antarctica by analysing tourist photos. “Right now, everyone has a camera in their pocket, and so the sheer volume of data being collected...
Each of us has a different metabolic response to eating the same breadMatthew Ashmore/Alamy Consider two slices of bread, one from an artisanal sourdough boule, the other from a cheap, mass-produced white loaf. Which do you think is healthier? The...
October 30, 20242 min readOne in Three Tree Species Is at Risk of ExtinctionA review of 47,282 tree species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature found that more than one third are at risk of extinctionBy Nicole Norman...
October 30, 20244 min readIn Record-Hottest Year, U.S. Voters Will Decide Climate’s Path ForwardGlobal temperatures through September point to 2024 besting 2023 as the hottest year on record. How many future years set records depends in part on the outcome of the...
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...
