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Sunflowers 'dance' together in high-density environments
29 August 2024

Sunflowers use dance moves to stay out of the shadows
Sunflowers 'dance' together to share sunlight. Experts have found that the plants that grow close together, casting a shadow over their neighbours, have found a way to resolve the problem through ...

Smoking cannabis raises the danger of a heart attack
29 August 2024

Cannabis smokers are three times as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke
Cannabis smokers are three times as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke. Experts in France tracked over 1,300 patients in intensive care across the country and found those who ...

A surgeon has been sacked for letting her teenage daughter drill into a patient's skull
29 August 2024

Surgeon sacked for allowing 13-year-old daughter to drill into patient's skull
A neurosurgeon has been sacked and is facing a criminal probe after allowing her teenage daughter to drill a hole in a patient's skull. The unnamed medic is said to have ...

Hong Kong teenagers have been told to play badminton rather than give in to their sexual urges
29 August 2024

Hong Kong teenagers advised to play badminton to avoid thinking about sex
Teenagers in Hong Kong have been told to play badminton to curb their sexual urges. Guidance published by Hong Kong's education authorities advises teenage boys and girls to "master their sexual ...

Robots will be doing human chores in the near future
28 August 2024

Robots could become human servants in the next five years
Robots could be doing human chores in the next five years. Experts claim that the bots could become a fixture in the home and part of daily life as the public ...

Teenage romances are very intense
28 August 2024

Teenage love needs to be taken more seriously
Teenage relationships are the most intense of our lives. An Oxford psychologist argues that people shouldn't be "flippant" about teenage crushes and the impact of heartbreak during adolescence needs to be ...

Walking for a brief period each day can add a year to somebody's life
28 August 2024

10-minute walks add a year to your life
Walking for 10 minutes every day can add a year to a person's life. A study has found that adding a brisk 10-minute walk to the daily routine of inactive men ...

Aliens could wage war on the human race
28 August 2024

Alien discovery could prove calamitous for the human race
Discovering aliens could be "catastrophic" for the human race. Space expert Shreedhara Somanath is convinced that extraterrestrial life exists but fears that humans making contact could spark a war that has ...

Eating spicy curries can ruin a man's sex life
27 August 2024

Eating spicy food makes men more prone to erectile dysfunction
Men who eat spicy food are likely to disappoint between the sheets. Experts have warned that chaps who eat fiery dishes more than three times a week are more likely to ...

People are being urged to wear socks to bed
27 August 2024

Wearing socks in bed can keep a person cool at night
Wearing socks can keep you cool in bed. A study has found that covering feet when settling down for the night makes a person sleep better as it regulates body temperature ...

Parental love is stronger than other bonds
27 August 2024

People love children more than their partners
The relationship between parent and child is the strongest form of love. Scientists have studied the brain activity of humans when they experience feelings of affection and found that children evoked ...

Singing Amazing Grace can prevent heart problems
27 August 2024

Singing Amazing Grace reverses heart disease effects
Singing 'Amazing Grace' can reverse the effects of heart disease. Scientists have made the discovery that performing the much-loved hymn for 10 minutes can help cure heart problems and also found ...

Exercising at the weekend is very effective
23 August 2024

Weekend exercise cuts dementia and Parkinson's risk
Exercising at the weekend is an effective way of preventing dementia and Parkinson's disease. Researchers in China have found that "weekend warriors" - who complete vigorous physical activity just once or ...

Men are a lot more likely to have sex on the brain
23 August 2024

Men are three times more likely to be thinking about sex than women
Men are three times more likely than women to have sex on the mind. A study has revealed that one in eight chaps fear they could be addicts compared to just ...

Purple aliens could be roaming in space
23 August 2024

Aliens could be purple instead of green
Aliens are more likely to be purple than green. Scientists have long thought that extraterrestrials were green like the colour of the pigment chlorophyll that enables oxygen to sustain life on ...

Mark Wahlberg swears by intermittent fasting by the diet has health risks
23 August 2024

Intermittent fasting can increase danger of colon cancer
Intermittent fasting increases the risk of colon cancer. A study on mice revealed that rodents who fasted for 24 hours prior to eating had a "profound" risk of pre-cancerous tumours forming ...

Severe Covid has been linked to an increased risk of mental illness
22 August 2024

Severe Covid increases mental illness risk
Severe cases of Covid raise a person's risk of suffering from depression. A new study has revealed how contracting the virus is connected to an increased prospect of mental illness such ...

The Moon's south pole was once covered in a magma ocean
22 August 2024

The Moon's south pole was covered in an ocean of magma
The Moon's south pole was once covered in an ocean of magma. Indian researchers say that the findings back up the theory that an ocean of liquid molten rock formed the ...

Manuka honey could treat and prevent breast cancer
22 August 2024

Manuka honey can treat and prevent breast cancer
Manuka honey could both treat and prevent breast cancer. Scientists have discovered that the fancy breakfast spread contains compounds that are capable of significantly reducing tumour growth in the most common ...

Esperance Fuerzina is the world's most tattooed woman (c) Instagram
22 August 2024

Army veteran takes record as world's most tattooed woman
A US Army veteran has become the most tattooed woman on the planet. Esperance Fuerzina has been recognised by the Guinness World Records after inking 99.98 per cent of her body ...

Research has found that Neanderthals were smarter than thought
21 August 2024

Archaeologists make shock discovery about Neanderthal intelligence
Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that Neanderthals were smarter than thought. Researchers from The Australian National University have been exploring the Abric Pizarro site near the Pyrenees mountains in Spain, ...

A python bit a man on the testicles as he used the toilet in Thailand
21 August 2024

Thai man bitten on testicles by python after sitting on toilet
A man was bitten on the testicles by a python in Thailand. Thanat Thangtewanon received a painful shock when the reptile clamped its jaws on his privates after it had been ...

Eating ham sandwiches can cause type 2 diabetes
21 August 2024

Eating ham can cause type 2 diabetes
Eating red meat raises the risk of type 2 diabetes. Research involving two million people around the globe provides compelling evidence of a link between meat consumption and the health condition ...

Maria Braynyas Morera has died aged 117 (c) Instagram
21 August 2024

World's oldest person Maria Branyas Morera dies aged 117
The world's oldest person has died at the age of 117. Maria Branyas Morera, from Spain, had lived through two pandemics and two world wars but her passing was announced by ...