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Eating high-fat cheeses and cream as part of a healthy diet appears to reduce people's risk of dementia, a new study has ...

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But this wasn't a real collective. And the people playing weren't human, or even alive. The residents were a thousand ...

That’s where researchers at the University of East Anglia step in. Their Rural Minds project uses 360-degree VR experiences ...

While hundreds of millions around the world face food insecurity, a nation has managed to become the only country that can ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...