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Met Office records indicate England and Wales are likely to have had their driest July since records began 190 years ago.

New research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6. Although BMI returns to earlier levels, a more reliable measure showed that body fat does not rebound at all. The increase appears to come from growing muscle and l...

The UK's biggest solar eclipse since 1999 arrives on 12 August. Here's where to see it safely.

Researchers have uncovered a possible biological pathway connecting obesity to Alzheimer’s disease. Obesity appears to raise levels of certain fat molecules that can travel to the brain, disrupt its immune defenses, and promote harmful amyloid buildup. Correcting this fat imbalance improved memory a...

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What if the Goldilocks zone is for idiots?

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard problem” and will explore puzzling phenomena such as near-death experiences and terminal lucidity. His wo...

Oxfordshire piper's tunes could soon make it to the moon under the plans of an space entrepreneur.