Eating green means considering biodiversity as well as climate change
15 June 2022
I thought my Mediterranean-style diet was helping the planet, but while it has reduced my carbon footprint, it is harming Earth's biodiversity, finds Graham Lawton
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Contemplating the mysteries of the fourth dimension is time well spent
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From what it is and why it only goes one way to how we perceive its passage and whether we could live without it, a journey exploring the many outstanding questions about time is always worth taking
Time to drop the outdated and unfair anonymity rule in organ donation
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The rise of social media means decades-old rules requiring that the identities of deceased organ donors and organ recipients remain secret are fast becoming obsolete
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Has Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?
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Gaia telescope’s new map of the Milky Way will let us rewind time
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The European Space Agency has released a new tranche of data from its Gaia space observatory, and it could help us rewind the path of stars to see the history of the Milky Way
One epigenome-editing injection could cut cholesterol level for years
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Brains can be hotter than the rest of our bodies, especially in women
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Our grey matter can be over 2°C warmer than the rest of our body, with the highest temperatures reached by women’s brains in the second half of the menstrual cycle
Physicists have made a quantum boomerang for the first time
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Hundreds of thousands of lithium atoms cooled to near absolute zero exhibit a strange quantum effect a bit like a boomerang
