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Babies group together their squeals and growls to prepare for speech

[ad_1] Babies make sounds like growls and squeals before they babble Prasit Rodphan / Alamy The growls and squeals babies make before they start babbling

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Smartphone use can actually help teenagers boost their mood

[ad_1] How do smartphones make teens feel? Shutterstock/DavideAngelini A small study of children aged 12 to 17 suggests that using a smartphone slightly improves their

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Parkinson’s disease could be prevented by a recent tetanus vaccine

[ad_1] Magnetic resonance imaging scan showing plaques (dark areas) in the centre of the brain of someone with Parkinson’s disease ZEPHYR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Parkinson’s disease

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Don’t be fooled by El Niño’s end – net zero is more urgent than ever

[ad_1] md zakirul mazed konok/Alamy The past few years have seen a significant rise in inflation in many countries, driven by a range of factors

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Risk of bird flu outbreak in cows causing pandemic is less than feared

[ad_1] Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus receptors but no human-like ones, a study has found, meaning there’s no reason for the virus

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Google AI Overviews: Can disastrous new search tool be fixed?

[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced its AI Overviews tool at a conference in Mountain View, California GLENN CHAPMAN/AFP via Getty Images Google is attempting

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Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest known attempt at treating cancer

[ad_1] The skull of an ancient Egyptian man with a round lesion caused by a tumour near the top Tondini, Isidro, Camarós, 2024 Tiny etchings

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Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers

[ad_1] The cyborg cockroaches being tested on desert-like terrain Yang Bai, et al. (2024) A swarm of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches can navigate to a target

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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy

[ad_1] This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both a massive stellar black hole and its companion star ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have found the largest

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We may finally know how cognitive reserve protects against Alzheimer’s

[ad_1] IF I never thought about dementia before, I thought of little else after the condition manifested in my mother. The odd thing was that