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A 2022 study detected an average of 1.6 micrograms of plastic per millilitre in blood from 22 volunteers
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Life
In 1938, a South African fisherman hauled up a fish that scientists believed had been extinct for 65 million years
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Health
A University of Basel study found that around the full moon, participants took longer to fall asleep, slept less deeply and produced less…
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Physics
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive because they are rich in potassium, and the dose is so measurable that scientists half-jokingly…
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Health
Columbia researchers combed through 9,000 patient records and found a link between the most prescribed antidepressants and faster-failing…
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Brain & Behavior
A Nature Neuroscience study used GPS to track 122 people across New York and Miami for months, and found the days they moved through more…
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Earth & Environment
Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion…
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Science
We tend to think diet and exercise are the pillars of a long life, but a 2025 Oregon Health & Science University study found insufficient…
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Life
The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 to 5 days, and the stem cells at the base of each intestinal crypt divide faster than…
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Space
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 with a suite of 10 science instruments
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Health
Scientists have found that every time you tighten your abdominal muscles, even slightly, your brain gently sways inside your skull
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Science
Researchers have identified tiny particles released by the gut that appear to actively drive the inflammation behind ageing and chronic…
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Science
Watching the brain in real time, researchers found that social behaviour begins in the brain before it becomes visible as movement
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Science
Researchers who mapped every neural connection in an adult fruit fly's central nervous system
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