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How a positive mind really can create a healthier body

How a positive mind really can create a healthier body

27 August 2018

A positive mindset isn't just mental – it can trigger physical changes making you fitter, slimmer, more energetic and less stressed. It will even help you live longer


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Flint water crisis: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes

22 August 2018

Artificial intelligence is helping to find the thousands of lead pipes responsible for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan


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Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought

22 August 2018

A new timeline of early evolution suggests life on Earth began 100 million years earlier than we thought, while meteorites were still pummelling the planet


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Record measles outbreak in Europe reaches 41,000 cases

22 August 2018

The failure of parents to vaccinate their children has contributed to the biggest surge in measles cases Europe has seen in a decade, included 37 deaths


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Genoa bridge collapse – what went wrong and are other bridges at risk?

22 August 2018

A large portion of motorway bridge in Genoa, Italy has collapsed killing 43 people. Here’s what we know so far about what went wrong


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The largest of Madagascar's endemic lemurs needs a helping hand

22 August 2018

Most of the 107 lemur species are at risk and the child-sized indri is no exception, being a victim of hunting and habitat loss to slash-and-burn agriculture


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Counted Out

22 August 2018

I remember being told that when you see a flash of lightning and start counting until you hear the thunderclap, the number you have counted to will amount to the number of miles distant the storm is. Is this true? If not, is there any way of calculating...


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Dazzle hassle?

22 August 2018

Are the bright lights that cyclists now use safe for the eyes of onlookers?


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Load of rubbish

22 August 2018

Rubbish collection seems complicated these days. Where I live, I use five different bins and the collections are fortnightly. Unlike many people I observe, I squash things like aluminium cans and plastic milk bottles. It seems logical and reduces the...


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Feedback: More jobs lost to AI (that's Avian Intelligence)

22 August 2018

Corvids join the rat race in France, Dutch judges turn up the heat on Pastafarian, cows granted access to nudist beach, the sea that's not a sea, and more


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