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Exercising on weekends only may cut risk of mental decline, study shows | UK News
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Exercising at the weekends only may be just as beneficial for slowing mental decline as working out throughout the week, researchers have said. A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that exercising on just one or two days was more effective at reducing the risk of mild dementia than more regular workouts.…
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Mega-tsunami caused Earth to vibrate for nine days, study shows | Climate News
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A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth’s crust, researchers found. It was…
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The way people get their news is changing, Ofcom report shows | UK News
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The main way people get their news has changed, according to a new survey by Ofcom. For the first time since the 1960s, online sites and apps are now more popular than TV news, according to the study, but TV and radio news are still more trusted as sources. “Television has dominated people’s news habits…
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Scotland and Ireland rock formation dating back ‘hundreds of millions of years’ shows historic global freeze, study says | Science & Tech News
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A Scottish and Irish rock formation dating back hundreds of millions of years could be evidence of what scientists call snowball Earth, a new study says. The snowball Earth theory proposes that the planet’s oceans and land were covered by ice during at least two extreme cooling events between 2.4 billion and 580 million years…
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Artificial intelligence could help detect heart failure risk early on, study shows | Science & Tech News
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Artificial intelligence could play a pivotal role in the early diagnosis of people who are at risk of heart failure as it is able to identify anomalies which are traditionally hard to detect, new research shows. Heart and circulatory diseases are the world’s biggest killer, claiming one in three lives every year. Researchers in Scotland…
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Obesity drug shows significant weight loss for at least four years, with fewer serious events, study finds | Science & Tech News
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The largest and longest study of the obesity drug Wegovy has shown people maintain significant weight loss for at least four years, with fewer serious adverse events than those given placebo ‘dummy’ treatment. Doctors say the finding will add pressure on UK health authorities, which currently limit treatment to just two years. Results revealed at…
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in more than half of food and drink samples, testing shows | UK News
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The government should ban 25 pesticides which contain so-called “forever chemicals”, campaigners have said, as the potentially harmful toxins were found in more than half of the tested food and drinks available to Britons. PFA chemicals, toxins which take centuries to break down in the environment, were found in more than 3,300 samples tested by…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink shows first brain-chip patient playing chess | Science & Tech News
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The first patient to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has appeared to play online chess. Neuralink released a nine-minute video in which the patient, who is paralysed below his shoulders, appears to move a cursor across a laptop screen with nothing but his thoughts. The video shows him playing chess and…
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ChatGPT shows ‘significant and systemic’ left-wing bias, study finds | Science & Tech News
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ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, shows a significant and systemic left-wing bias, UK researchers have found. According to the new study by the University of East Anglia, this includes favouring the Labour Party and President Joe Biden‘s Democrats in the US. Concerns about an inbuilt political bias in ChatGPT have been raised before, notably…
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Cerberus heatwave: European data shows land temperatures are scorching – and it’s about to get much worse | World News
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The heatwave affecting southern Europe has been building for months. And it’s about to get much worse. Temperatures have been consistently above 40C since mid-April in many areas. Europe heatwave – latest: Continent could have hottest day ever But on the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Sardinia they’re expected to climb to 48C in the…