Smokers are increasingly unconvinced of the benefits of switching to e-cigarettes, or ‘vaping’ – using an electronic device to heat a liquid that contains nicotine and inhaling the vapour (as opposed ...

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Our hunter-gatherer forebears weren’t the carnivorous cavemen we once thought. Which makes trying to build a diet based on ...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, no one has more experience than Ray Kurzweil. During his 61 years in the development of AI, he invented the first commercially available large-vocabulary ...

Dimples are a surprising everyday mystery. Despite large portions of the population having them, not much is actually known about these facial features. In some cultures, they are seen as good luck, ...

Picture a flamingo in your mind now and it’s probably A) fantastically pink, and B) standing on one leg. If not, it should be: the fuchsia-feathered birds adopt this unipedal stance for several hours ...

What if we could halt the ageing process or maybe even reverse it? Researchers across the world are beginning to hone in on the ‘biological hallmarks’ of ageing – processes within the body that are ...

Mixing molten magma with cool water sounds dangerous; fortunately,National Geographichave done it for us - the result is beautiful and bubbly… and it blows up! So why are they doing this? Apart from ...

Think of a rock. It’s angular, grey and on the ground, right? Wrong. Rocks come in a staggering variety of shapes and colours, which help us decipher the stories of their geological lives. Here are ...

What’s the most effective way to protect our children’s mental health? The answer that’s been echoed by waves of politicians across the world over the last two decades: ban their social media. Such ...

Scientists have found a simple new method to reduce the rate of people suffering from a peanut allergy by a staggering 71 per cent. How? By feeding a child peanuts regularly between the ages of four ...

Researchers have developed a prototype infrared contact lens that could allow people to see in the dark – or with their eyelids closed. The cutting-edge prototype, developed by the University of ...