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No, beetroot isn’t vegetable Viagra. But here’s what else it can do
CLICKMANIS/Shutterstock Lauren Ball, The University of Queensland and Emily Burch, Southern Cross University Beetroot has been in the…
Venomous snakes could start migrating in large numbers if we hit 5°C warming
Pablo Ariel Martinez, Universidade Federal de Sergipe A global group of scientists has predicted that climate change may…
TikTok health hacks promising to change the taste and smell of female genitals are more sour than sweet
Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock Lisa Garwood-Cross, University of Salford Wake up. Brush teeth. Exfoliate. Drink a glass of pineapple…
How can a baby learn two languages at the same time?
Cameron Morin, ENS de Lyon Language acquisition in children is one of the most fascinating features of the…
Eating some chocolate really might be good for you – here’s what the research says
Mikolaj Niemczewski/Shutterstock Dan Baumgardt, University of Bristol Although it always makes me scoff slightly to see Easter eggs…
If brain transplants like the one in Poor Things were possible, this is how they might work
Bella Baxter’s brain transplant in Poor Things. Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Dan Baumgardt, University of…
As climate change and pollution imperil coral reefs, scientists are deep-freezing corals to repopulate future oceans
Healthy corals like these on Australia’s Lady Elliot Reef could disappear by the 2030s if climate change is…
New electrochemical technology could de-acidify the oceans – and even remove carbon dioxide in the process
Charles-Francois de Lannoy, McMaster University; Bassel A. Abdelkader, McMaster University, and Jocelyn Riet, University of Toronto In the…
I’ve studied sand dunes for 40 years – here’s what people find most surprising
Sand dunes in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert can stretch for 100km. mr.wijannarongk kunchit David Thomas, University of Oxford The…
For the Maya, solar eclipses were a sign of heavenly clashes − and their astronomers kept sophisticated records to predict them
El Castillo pyramid illuminated at night under a starry sky in Chichen Itza, Mexico, one of the largest…