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Health

Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good

Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its most debilitating symptoms: post-exertional malaise

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People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid

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Health

Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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��˾þ�s inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Cheerful mother and daughter tickling and playing at home on couch

Humans

What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

Humans

Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

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Two hands holding three clams on a beach

Environment

The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal

��˾þ�s were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long and what can we learn from it?

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Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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Mathematics

We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

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Life

What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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Mind

Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has big health benefits

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