Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps
Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putt
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ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents
A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptom
Thylacine’s genome provides clues about why it went extinct
A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before humans and dingoes arriv
Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes
Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the photosynthetic microbes re
Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed
Your biological age – a measure based on markers on your DNA, rather than your number of birthdays – can rise and fall in relation to stressful events
Time appears to run five times slower in the early universe
A phenomenon called cosmological time dilation means that events taking place in the early universe seem to evolve slower than those today
Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable
Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI de
Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a simple addition
The acidity of drinks like Red Bull can erode dental enamel, but a lab experiment suggests this could be avoided via calcium fortification
Starlink satellites are leaking radio signals that may ruin astronomy
Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, which seem to be
Psychedelic drug ibogaine may treat PTSD by slowing brainwaves
In people with traumatic brain injury, administering the psychedelic drug ibogaine seems to slow down brainwaves, which may explain why it helps treat