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December 26, 2024 2 min read WWII Sugar Rationing Gave Kids a Lifelong Health Boost Infants who experienced rationing had a meaningfully lower risk of diabetes and hypertension decades later By Saima S. Iqbal edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Lydia…

The brain shrinkage observed in Alzheimer’s may be prevented by semaglutide, the drug in Ozempic ZEPHYR/Science Photo Library/Alamy Ozempic and Wegovy are already transforming how we treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, and from next year another condition affecting millions…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the…

Oops! Try that again Tetra Images/Alamy An error in a proof underlying a widely used branch of modern mathematics was accidentally discovered by mathematicians while translating old proofs to a computer language. The mistake was swiftly fixed, but mathematicians say…

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past, or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ‘conscious awareness of ignorance’ —…

Do you think they’re still doing a good job? I do. I think they’ve changed the narrative. I think they’ve taken something that was a threat to them and they’ve characterized it in a way that’s negative. And I think…

Google’s Willow quantum chip Google Many researchers believe that the only way to build unambiguously useful quantum computers is to enable them to correct their own errors. A breakthrough in December from researchers at Google Quantum AI charted one path…

Imagine taking a hammer to your laptop. You smash it apart and shards of plastic, batteries and circuit board go flying. It would be an act of vandalism, a shocking waste of money and resources, so much so that it…

Genus’s gene-edited pigs with resistance to the virus that causes PRRS Genus PIC Thirty years after the first genetically modified tomato went on sale, the promise to revolutionise farming with genetic technologies remains largely unfulfilled. But 2025 could be a…

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to make heavier elements by firing titanium particles at a metal target Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab The race to discover new chemical elements will heat up in 2025, resulting in the heaviest one so far and…