Parents’ smartphone use could harm child development
While smartphones have made our lives easier, they come with their own set of drawbacks. A new study has found
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Coral decline: is sunscreen responsible?
Many household products contain ingredients to protect them against sun damage. These UV filters are found in plastics, paints and
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How our brains track where we and others go?
As Covid-19 cases rise, physically distancing yourself from other people has never been more important. Now a new study reveals
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Warming of 2°C would release billions of tonnes of soil carbon, research says
Global warming of 2°C would lead to about 230 billion tonnes of carbon being released from the world’s soil, new
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Revealed: How flowers adapt to their pollinators
Flowering plants are characterized by an astonishing diversity of flowers of different shapes and sizes. This diversity has arisen in
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It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe
Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory
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New ways to heal damage after a heart attack
For people who survive a heart attack, the days immediately following the event are critical for their longevity and long-term
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How the brain fights off fears that return to haunt us
Neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a group of cells in the brain that are responsible
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Global warming to expose 1 billion people to mosquito-carrying diseases
As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the century because
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Explained: the evolution of brain tumours
There are three different genetic alterations that drive the early development of malignant glioblastomas, said a report by the German
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