Babies with bilingual mothers have distinct brainwaves at 1 day old
[ad_1] Newborns whose mothers speak two languages appear to have distinct brain responses to speech compared with those born to monolingual mothers, supporting the idea
The war in Gaza is creating a health crisis that will span decades
[ad_1] Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies in Rafah Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Shutterstock The situation in Gaza
There are growing fears of an alarming shift in Antarctic sea ice
[ad_1] Is Antarctic sea ice undergoing a permanent change? Photodynamic/Shutterstock The sea ice that encircles Antarctica has reached near-record low levels for the third year
The moons of Mars may have been formed in an icy planetary collision
[ad_1] How did Mars acquire its moons? NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University The mystery of where Mars’s two moons came from may finally be
The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy
[ad_1] ONE HUNDRED days into the war in Gaza, I was finding it increasingly difficult to read the news. My husband told me it might
We should be open about organoid research to avoid a backlash
[ad_1] Research that involves creating “mini-organs” from human cells, including those from fetuses, may leave people uncomfortable – so the best approach is to explain
The scientific secrets to baking a perfectly moist chocolate cake
[ad_1] Shutterstock/Jaclyn Vernace NEXT week is my daughter’s 5th birthday party, and she has high expectations for her cake. It has to be extremely chocolatey,
Phorusrhacids: Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs’ demise
[ad_1] Illustration of a terror bird and other animals that may have lived in what is now Antarctica at the same time C. Acosta Hospitaleche
Triassic ichthyosaur was super-predator that may have been largest ever animal
[ad_1] Artist’s impression of Stenopterygius quadriscissus, an ichthyosaur dotted zebra / Alamy Stock Photo PREHISTORIC Earth was a place of monsters. There were 2.5-metre-long millipedes,
Ozempic, Wegovy and beyond: Could the next wave of weight-loss drugs end obesity?
[ad_1] There are TikTok hashtags with millions of followers, endless column inches over celebrities’ waistlines and streams of media coverage when trial results come out.