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Eating Marmite could ease anxiety and depression

B vitamins found in the spread may help the brain produce calming neurochemicals

THE CARNIVORE DIET: CAN EATING A MEAT-ONLY MENU BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?

The meat-only diet has gone viral on social media, with its proponents claiming that humans evolved to exist on animal protein alone

THINKING POSITIVELY CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR BODY, NOT JUST YOUR BRAIN

Looking for an upside in any given situation can improve everything from the immune system to heart health

LOVE HURTS

Slicing, biting, slashing, cannibalising... these are not words we would naturally associate with romance. But there is beauty and splendour to be seen in the shadier side of animal mating

Artificial sweeteners found in sugar-free foods can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria

The discovery could help in the war against superbugs

RECOMMENDED HEALTH TARGETS: DO THEY WORK?

Get your five-a-day. Sleep eight hours. Drink eight glasses of water. These are just a few of the ‘essential’ health guidelines we’re supposed to live by, but who can really manage all of the above? And do these ‘commandments’ stand up to scrutiny?

VIDEOCONFERENCING STIFLES CREATIVITY

Being tethered to a screen makes us less likely to mentally wander, and this has an impact on our creative thinking

THE HIDDEN ROOMS OF TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB

A century ago, Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered. But even today, controversy still rages over whether it contains undiscovered chambers. Here, an Egyptologist puts the rumours to bed... or, rather, firmly into their sarcophagus

A lab to live by

CERN continues to be a hotspot for scientific discovery

HOW OUR BRAINS DECLINE AS WE AGE

The charts could one day be used as a clinical tool to help track patients’ brain development and diagnose neurodevelopmental disorders

HOW TO BUILD THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

At the Polarization Lab in North Carolina, multidisciplinary researchers – including social scientists, statisticians and computer scientists – are breaking apart the social media status quo to rebuild it, one peer-reviewed brick at a time

LAB GROWN MEAT

Everything you need to know about a future where you can have your steak and eat it…

W BOSON: IS IT ABOUT TO BREAK PHYSICS?

The mass of the W boson, a subatomic particle, appears to be wrong. What could this mean for the Standard Model of particle physics?

STIMULATION AND SIGNALLING

Using magnets to influence the brain could lead to revolutionary new depression treatment. The method, tested in rats, targets star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes. Neuroscientists Dr Yichao Yu and Prof Mark Lythgoe at University College London tell us more…

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: WHY IS IT BEING RETIRED AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO IT?

The last decade of the ageing space station’s life will feature private occupants, movies and an eventual watery grave

THE PERILS OF FOLKLORE

Seemingly innocuous folk cures and old wives’ tales can have a darker side

THE EXPLAINER: TORNADOES

All about tornadoes

YOU, ME AND OUR MICROBES

Why you are more like your partner than you might think

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

The search for alien life is ramping up. But what if, instead of searching for signs of biology, we looked for something more familiar: an extraterrestrial civilisation?

THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

A mathematical phenomenon seen in everything from fruit to music

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR

The volcanoes of 2021 blew our minds at a time when much of the world was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic

NEW DADS: DO THEY GET POSTNATAL DEPRESSION?

Nearly one in four new fathers suffers from anxiety and depression in the first year following their children’s birth. Should we be doing more to help them?

YOUR PRODUCTIVE BRAIN

Increasing your productivity is easy. It’s just a matter of making a few simple changes to your routine, or behaviour, or thinking, and your productivity will soar. At least, that’s what countless online articles claim. The actual science tells a different story. Even a modest amount of research reveals that some of the most commonly touted claims about how to boost productivity fall apart in the face of the evidence. So, here are some of the most common myths around boosting productivity, along with a number of approaches that have a more robust scientific basis.

An Immune System for the Planet

Can we build a global pathogen defence system – a planetary equivalent of the immune system – to protect us when the next pandemic arrives?

DOES YOUR DOG REALLY LOVE YOU?

Sure, they wag their tails to greet us and are happy to snuggle up and watch TV in the evening, but are our beloved pooches actually experiencing the same love for us as we feel for them?

Elizabeth Ann is the first clone of a US endangered species. She was 33 years in the making

For the first time, scientists have created a clone of an endangered US species - a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann. The researchers used cells from a donor that had been dead for more than 30 years, and the procedure's success could mean not only rescue for one of North America's most endangered mammals, but a watershed moment in conservation biology.

Cancer's cure

Dr Shaheenah Dawood says it's an exciting time for oncology research and is spearheading change in cancer care in the UAE, making sure that all patients, whether they come from the Middle East or Africa, have access to medication and treatment.

NOT MY FIRST METAVERSE

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might be getting excited about the metaverse, but the idea is nothing new

SEEING THE BLUES

Blue light from devices can have positive and negative effects on us

WHAT IS SYNAESTHESIA?

Connecting senses in fascinating ways means some people see the world completely differently