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James Webb Telescope reveals unexpectedly busy early universe
If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the jo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Changing a nation's diet
How do you get a country to change its national diet? That’s what China has been trying by introducing potato as a staple as part of an effort to imp…
3 years, 3 months ago
Discovery: how celebrity footballers can help reduce prejudice against minorities
In the latest episode of Discovery, an ongoing series where we explore the stories behind new research discoveries from around the world, we hear abo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Young people’s shifting relationship with alcohol
The amount of alcohol young people drink in many high-income countries has seen a marked decline since the early 2000s. But in many developing countr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Treating mental illness with electricity
Mental illnesses like obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and addiction are notoriously hard to treat and often don't respond to drugs. But a n…
3 years, 3 months ago
Uncharted Brain 3: the role viruses may play in Alzheimer’s
There are many competing theories about what causes Alzheimer's disease. For more than 30 years, Ruth Itzhaki has been accumulating evidence that vir…
3 years, 4 months ago
Uncharted Brain 2: the family trauma of dementia from sports injuries
In the second of a three-part series, Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia, we explore chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a form of dementia that athlet…
3 years, 4 months ago
Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s
This week we're running a three-part series called Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia exploring new research searching for answers to how dementia wo…
3 years, 4 months ago
Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return
Momentum is growing for objects stolen during the colonial era that are now held in museums in Europe and North America to be returned to the places …
3 years, 4 months ago
How to depolarize deeply divided societies
From the US, to Brazil, to India, deepening political polarisation is used as a frame through which to see a lot of 21st century politics. But what c…
3 years, 4 months ago