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Every time you peel a banana and dispose of the skin, you're throwing away a tasty, nutritious snack.

New year, new you, new diet.

Since the landmark discovery in 1992 of two planets orbiting a star outside of our Solar System, thousands of new worlds have been added to a rapidly growing list of 'exoplanets' in the Milky Way…

The relentlessness of chronic pain wears you down. Beyond being a physical distraction in and of itself, it disrupts sleep, interferes with work and relationships, and can even alter the way we…

By the end of 2022, more than 650 million COVID infections had been reported to the World Health Organization.

Scientists have found a new way to harvest psilocybin, the psychedelic compound typically found in mushrooms. They've engineered bacteria to produce psilocybin in their cells and poop it out, in gram…

Quantum entanglement is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart – their respective properties are linked in a way that's not possible under the rules of…

There are all kinds of pollutants in the air around us.

Ordinarily, to measure an object we must interact with it in some way.

A new kind of black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.

Astronomy is a bit different from many sciences because you only have a sample size of 1. The cosmos contains everything we can observe, so astronomers can't study multiple universes to see how our…

«The Uchuu simulation is the largest and most detailed simulation of the Universe ever made. It contains 2.1 trillion 'particles' in a space 9.6 billion light-years across. The simulation models the evolution of the Universe across more than 13 billion years»

Marking the passage of time in a world of ticking clocks and swinging pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now'.

In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place. Under the cover of darkness, negative thoughts have a way of drifting through your mind, and as you lie awake, staring at…

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A new study suggests eating later in the day can directly impact our biological weight regulation in three key ways: through the number of calories that we burn; our hunger levels; and the way our…

Grab any physics textbook and you'll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve and stop. The formulas describe actions we can observe, but behind each could be sets of…

New research into weight lifting has revealed two insights: that the practice is able to strengthen the connections between nerves and muscles, and that this strengthening can still happen in the…

Many people struggle to get enough good quality sleep.