8 h. ago Milk before or after cereal? Scientists finally settle the age

It's a debate that will leave many shaking their heads in horror. When it comes to eating breakfast, do you put the cereal or the milk in the bowl first? Scientists have weighed in on the debate - do you agree?

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58 h. ago Scientists reveal the surprising secret to Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg's success

They're three of the most successful CEOs in the entire world. And now scientists think they've finally found the secret to Steve Jobs, Bill Gates , and Mark Zuckerberg 's success.

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4 d. ago A massive 'zombie' volcano is stirring after lying dormant for 250,000 years

Scientists have finally worked out why a "zombie" volcano that is technically dead is showing signs of unrest

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4 d. ago RFK Jr likes to think his views on food dyes are pioneering. In fact, he’s way behind the curve | Devi Sridhar

Britain and the EU identified the risks and clamped down on them long ago – Trump’s health guru is just playing catch-upOne of my favourite memories as a child growing up in Miami was going to the local fair and having bright-blue cotton candy – candy floss, as you’d call it in Britain. My siblings and I would stick out our tongues to compare how blue they were. Sometimes as blue as the milk in our Lucky Charms cereal bowls, where the marshmallows shaped like blue moons, horseshoes and rainbows coloured anything that got in contact with them. Candy corn was a staple on Halloween, and corn syrup jugs were ubiquitous at Thanksgiving to bake pumpkin and pecan pies. These were rare treats – we were an immigrant family who largely ate traditional Indian food – and for that caution, I’m grateful.We now know how artificial food colourings affect the cognitive, behavioural, metabolic and nutritional development of children, and how they are linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...

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4 d. ago The UK and EU cracked down on food dyes long ago – Maga is way behind the curve | Devi Sridhar

For years, artificial dyes have been linked to health issues and even ADHD in children, but the US is only now looking at banning themOne of my favourite memories as a child growing up in Miami was going to the local fair and having bright-blue cotton candy – candy floss, as you’d call it in Britain. My siblings and I would stick out our tongues to compare how blue they were. Sometimes as blue as the milk in our Lucky Charms cereal bowls, where the marshmallows shaped like blue moons, horseshoes and rainbows coloured anything that got in contact with them. Candy corn was a staple on Halloween, and corn syrup jugs were ubiquitous at Thanksgiving to bake pumpkin and pecan pies. These were rare treats – we were an immigrant family who largely ate traditional Indian food – and for that caution, I’m grateful.We now know how artificial food colourings affect the cognitive, behavioural, metabolic and nutritional development of children, and how they are linked to attention deficit hyperact...

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4 d. ago Scientists have finally discovered the secret to the 'perfect' pasta recipe

Italian scientists have revealed the physics of the perfect cacio e pepe sauce

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6 d. ago Scientists finally reveal true death toll from ultraprocessed foods... and it's worse than anyone feared

Researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine have revealed the shocking number of Americans who could be dying from ultraprocessed foods every year.

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1 week ago Flight attendant settles the arm rest debate once and for all as they reveal the correct rules during flights

A flight attendant has settled an age-long debate after revealing the correct armrest etiquette for passengers fighting for extra room on flights, in a post shared by a passenger on Reddit.

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1 week ago Mystery of the 'Dial of Destiny' is SOLVED after 2,000 years: Scientists finally uncover the true use for the ancient device that inspired Indiana Jones

It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may have finally solved the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism.

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2 w. ago It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay

Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play from the back. Chelsea fans tend to like forceful, direct football. Conflict of some kind always seemed inevitableThere was a new story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?”What they found inside the cubic millimetre of mouse brain was an eternity of wiring, just miles and miles of tiny wire to be untangled, pictured in the accompanying article clumped into a single mass, like a pan of mouse brain vermicelli left overnight in the sink. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago NASA spots strange 'mushballs' of slushy hail fall on planet in our Solar System

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery

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3 w. ago King Charles makes wry joke about his health as he plants a tree in Rome in the final day of state visit to Italy

Charles kickstarted the final day of his state visit to Italy by chatting with scientists and planting a tree in the gardens of Villa Wolkonsky, the ambassador's residence just outside Rome.

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4 w. ago What we should be talking about when we see Snow White | Eva Wiseman

Snow White has sparked outrage across the board, but why is no one worried about its messaging on beauty?Last week I took my daughter to see the new Snow White film and on the train she told me how all the girls had been called into a special assembly. It was to tell them that makeup was strictly forbidden – some girls (she discreetly told me their names, vaguely scandalised) had started wearing mascara to school. And as she spoke I was immediately propelled to 1991, my friend’s kitchen, the violet smell of other people’s laundry, her mother explaining that we shouldn’t wear makeup until we were, “At least 40,” because it was just, “for covering wrinkles and the shadows of age.” That conversation has rattled around in my head for decades (“the shadows of age”) and it lodged there as I settled in with my popcorn.The new Snow White has been plagued by so much controversy some might assume the marketing team had bitten a cursed apple. It took nine years to make it into cinemas, after, ...

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