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Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral Reopened It’s been a tumultuous year in French politics, but there was at least some good news at the end of 2024: After being badly damaged by a fire in its roof-space in 2019, Notre Dame…

December 30, 2024 4 min read Auroras May Light Up New Year’s Sky after Solar Outbursts Will still more auroras ring out 2024, a year marked by the celestial displays? By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings The northern lights…

December 30, 2024 5 min read How Frazzled Parents Can Be More Present with Kids during the Holidays Future-oriented thinking, rather than careening from moment to moment, can help parents have more meaningful moments with their children By Julia Felton,…

The suggestion that consciousness has its origins in quantum weirdness has long been viewed as a bit, well, weird. Critics argue that ideas of quantum consciousness, the most famous of which posits that moments of experience arise as quantum superpositions…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world…

The skin is by far the body’s biggest organ. Depending on your height and body mass, it covers an area of around 1.5 to 2 square metres and weighs between 3.5 and 10 kilograms – around 15 per cent of…

Illustration of semaglutide (red) activating a key receptor, called GLP-1 (blue) JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy The active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, a drug called semaglutide, can have direct beneficial effects on the heart within weeks, in addition to the…

  A reconstruction of the dress from an Iron Age grave in the Netherlands, created by Prehistorisch Dorp in Eindhoven Hanna Geels A 2800-year-old red and blue checked dress found in an Early Iron Age grave in the Netherlands might…

You’re probably feeling it: the onslaught of depressing news and commentary about political actions, wars, climate disasters and more. The first few times you’re exposed to a perceived injustice, you feel fired up and ready to fight against it. But…

A Chinese deep-sea mining vehicle during a trial in the Pacific Ocean in July 2024 Credit: Shanghai Jiao Tong University/Handout via Xinhua/Alamy Mining companies are hoping that 2025 will be the year they can finally start harvesting valuable minerals from…