1 week ago I drank kefir for a month and it made me feel like a superhuman – what’s the secret behind this gut

Could this fermented drink hold the key to better health?

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2 w. ago Chelsea could hold the key to Andre Onana's Manchester United transfer situation

There could be upheaval in United's goalkeeper department this summer

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2 w. ago What caused the Air India fireball: From the Indian government's 'cover

The world is still waiting for answers, with some making lurid claims of a government cover-up. So what really happened that day in Ahmedabad? Here are the key questions demanding answers.

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2 w. ago Gut bacteria may hold key to protecting brain against Alzheimers

A bacteria best known for causing stomach ulcers could lead to a new strategy in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease

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3 w. ago Man City enter a new era at Club World Cup and two arrivals hold the key

Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki hold a particular importance as Pep Guardiola builds his third Manchester City team and looks to re-establish the club as the best in the world

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3 w. ago On the trail of Jay Slater's 'missing mates': The five key witnesses who could hold the secrets to his death after inquest was halted... and where they are now

This week the long-awaited inquest into the apprentice bricklayer's death was dramatically halted after his mother Debbie Duncan said she needed answers from key witnesses.

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3 w. ago Inside Man City plans ahead of Club World Cup after Miami arrival

Manchester City have arrived in the United States ahead of their first game in the Club World Cup next Wednesday.

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3 w. ago Something in the water: how kelp is helping Maine’s mussels boom

When a US firm saw the seaweed was making their shellfish the ‘biggest and best’ scientists realised they’d hit upon a natural way to combat ocean acidificationPhotographs by Greta RybusMore on this story: A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?On a glimmering May morning, Tom Briggs pilots a 45ft aluminium barge through the waters of Casco Bay for one of the final days of the annual kelp harvest. Motoring past Clapboard Island, he points to a floating wooden platform where mussels have been seeded alongside ribbons of edible seaweed.“This is our most productive mussel site,” says Briggs, the farm manager for Bangs Island Mussels, a Portland sea farm that grows, harvests and sells hundreds of thousands of pounds of shellfish and seaweed each year. “When we come here, we get the biggest, fastest-growing mussels with the thickest shells and the best quality. To my mind, unscientifically, it’s because of the kelp.”Zoe Benisek, oyster l...

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3 w. ago A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?

Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adoptedIn October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification.Ebb plans to use a method called electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) to mimic the natural process of ocean alkalisation – in other words, it wants to add huge amounts of alkaline materials to ocean waters that scientists now know are acidifying at an alarming rate. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice could be set for key royal roles as Prince William eyes revamp

Prince William could hold the key to Prince Andrew's daughters' futures when he takes the throne

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