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Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages?
The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently – for science that makes you laugh and then think – and the peace prize was given to a cheeky study testing…
7 months, 1 week ago
Fact-checking Trump’s autism announcement
In a televised press conference on Monday, Donald Trump and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr made a series of unproven claims about autism and it…
7 months, 1 week ago
Is there hope on the horizon for patients with Alzheimer’s?
A trial is under way to find out if a £100 blood test could transform the way that the NHS diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is the leading …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Is the US on the brink of a new era of political violence?
The murder of political activist Charlie Kirk has prompted fears about rising levels of political violence in the US after a number of high-profile a…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Putin’s quest for longevity
At a recent ceremony for world leaders in Beijing, a hot mic picked up a surprising exchange between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about the possibil…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Shrinking states: a positive future with fewer people?
The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row – a trend mirrored across the world, with two-thirds of the global pop…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Shrinking states: are we on a path to depopulation?
The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row. It is a story that is being repeated all over the world, with two thi…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Is curiosity the key to ageing well?
Psychologists have traditionally believed we become less curious as we age, but recent research has shown that curiosity actually becomes more target…
8 months ago
RFK Jr and the chaos at the CDC
It’s been a dramatic week at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the space of seven days, the agency’s head was sacked and re…
8 months ago
‘AI psychosis’: could chatbots fuel delusional thinking?
There are increasing reports of people experiencing delusions after intensive use of AI chatbots. The phenomenon, dubbed ‘AI psychosis’, has raised c…
8 months, 1 week ago