Women experience greater benefits than men from the same amount of regular exercise, research suggests when it comes to avoiding an early grave. According to the NHS, men and women aged 19 to 64 should clock up at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise, or 75 of vigorous exercise a week, with muscle-strengthening activities at … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has bought a website address referencing former president Donald Trump’s new sneaker brand and turned it into an anti-gun violence website with the ability to call … Read more
Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers and Yugul Mangi Rangers have discovered a population of the rare threatened Speartooth Shark in the Roper River. Credit: Charles Darwin University Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers and First Nations Yugul Mangi Rangers have discovered a new population of a rare and threatened shark species in the Northern Territory’s Roper … Read more
Earlier today I set these two puzzles, which were given to me by a computer scientist at Microsoft. They are an analogy for how companies protect data centres from the random failures of hard drives. Here they are again with solutions and workings. The disappearing boxes You have 100 boxes. Each box contains a single … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email John Oliver has offered Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he leaves the court immediately. On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the show … Read more
Research strategy and participant group affiliations. Credit: Local Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2023.2298675 What if one of the things known for helping and reducing stress and anxiety, becomes such a commitment, it leads to burn-out? It is widely believed that getting involved in community gardening projects is beneficial to health and well-being; in fact, participation is … Read more
It did not seem like a good thing when a precious consignment of human tumour samples on its way from Kampala, Uganda, to Heathrow was diverted to Manchester. When the samples finally arrived at the Middlesex hospital in London, they were swimming in murky fluid in their vials as though they had been infected with … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Sir Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as left-wing organisation Momentum relaunches a mass email campaign targeting MPs ahead of a crunch Commons vote this week. … Read more
Giant Antarctic sea spider. Credit: R. Robbins The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote continent and saw first-hand the behaviors of these mysterious creatures, and their findings could have wider implications … Read more
(NewsNation) — NASA is looking for volunteers to take part in a yearlong Mars simulation, living in an environment designed to mimic the red planet. Applicants will compete for a spot to live in Mars Dune Alpha, a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This will be the second group … Read more
