28 h. ago Eating chicken four times a week could double risk of cancer death, study finds

Italian scientists made the discovery after examining dietary and health information of nearly 5,000 people, mostly in their 50s, over nearly two decades, including if they died and from what.

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32 h. ago Scientists call for 'urgent attention' after discovering harmful potential effects of Ozempic

Blockbuster weight loss drugs like Ozempic could leave users at a higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts, a groundbreaking new study has shown.

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40 h. ago Google’s AI bot Gemini ‘hallucinating’ by making up answers to fake phrases

Scumbag chatbots hit with another big blow as scientists discovered Google’s AI assistant Gemini can “hallucinate” after being asked about wild and made-up phrases

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56 h. ago Scientists discover new cause of cancer that hits 10,000 Britons every year

Research has long suggested that bacteria living in our digestive systems - known as the gut microbiome - could be the key to our overall health.

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57 h. ago NASA spots mystery 'skull' on Mars and scientists are baffled

NASA's Perroverance rover has discovered a mystery rock on Mars that is baffling scientists as they believe it originated from elsewhere, with the team currently working to understand where on Mars the rock formed

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58 h. ago British artist claims he has created paint in ‘new’ colour announced by scientists

Stuart Semple is selling product for £10,000 (or £29.99 to fellow creatives) – but scientists say hue cannot be replicatedA British artist claims to have replicated in paint a colour that scientists say they discovered by having laser pulses fired into their eyes.Stuart Semple created his own version of the blue-green colour based on the US research published in Science Advances, which he is selling on his website for £10,000 per 150ml jar – or £29.99 if you state you are an artist. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Bowel cancer breakthrough as scientists discover possible cause behind spike in young people

Scientists believe they may have found a bacterial toxin in E.coli which leaves behind specific patterns of DNA mutation which are present in bowel cancer especially among young people

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68 h. ago Scientists discover just 19 bites of popular 'health' food per week could kill you

It's America's most popular protein, loved by health nuts, comfort food aficionados and everyone in between. But a new study suggests eating too much of it could increase your risk of death.

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2 d. ago NASA scientists baffled as rover discovers mysterious 'skull' on Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across yet another unusual rock on the Red Planet

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3 d. ago Scientists discover lost Shakespeare letter that upends what we know about playwright's life

For years it was assumed that William Shakespeare's marriage was an unhappy one. Now, new evidence suggests that it wasn't so miserable after all.

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4 d. ago Scientists discover first 'polar planet' orbiting two stars in ‘surprise’ find

The planet orbits two stars at once, like the fictional Star Wars world Tatooine.

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6 d. ago Scientists claim to have discovered 'new colour' no one has ever seen before

The colour, nicknamed 'Olo', showed up during a bold experiment where laser pulses were fired into volunteers' eyes - carefully targeting just one type of cone cell in the retina

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7 d. ago Hue are you kidding? Scientists claim to have discovered a new colour never seen by humans

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say that by stimulating individual cells in the retina that the laser pushed their perception beyond its natural limits.

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8 d. ago Scientists now say MILLIONS of planets could be teeming with life

Planet K2-18b is very unlikely to be a one-off in the vast universe - meaning many others that are similar likely exist too.

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8 d. ago Mars 'once home to alien lifeforms' as NASA makes bombshell Red Planet discovery

Aliens could once have been living on Mars after scientists made a bombshell discovery while drilling on the Red Planet. The NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover squad are buzzing

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9 d. ago Scientists reveal what aliens could REALLY look like on exoplanet K2

As scientists discover the most promising evidence of life on a distant planet, experts reveal what that alien life might look like.

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9 d. ago Social media erupts with hilarious memes as scientists discover signature of alien life on a planet 120 light years from Earth

Following the announcement of the alien planet, it didn't take long for hilarious memes to pop up across social media.

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9 d. ago Common ailment suffered by millions makes you 70% more likely to suffer deadly stroke, scientists discover

Finnish researchers analysing health data from more than 1,000 adults under 50 found those suffering from the painful problem had a significantly higher chance of a stroke.

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9 d. ago Ocean planet could be 'teeming with alien life' as scientists make 'astounding discovery'

Professor Nikku Madhusudhan made the discovery and now claims that it is 'the strongest evidence yet there is possibly life out there' somewhere in our universe

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9 d. ago Signature of alien life 'found' 120 light years from Earth: Scientists detect signs of tell

A distant ocean-covered world, teeming with life. That's the most likely explanation for a new discovery made by scientists studying the planet K2-18b.

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