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If you have spent nights eating chocolates or ice cream, then 'loneliness' can be the reason behind the binging on sugary items, say researchers. According to the study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, loneliness can cause an extreme desire for sugary foods. To conduct the study, the...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has voiced concerns about the spread of H5N1 bird flu, which is increasingly infecting non-avian species and thus upping the risk of transmission to humans, for whom the mortality rate is “extraordinarily high”. "This remains, I think, an enormous concern," the...
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A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light those...
photo: Hiramatsu et al. 2023/Sebastian Gomez (STScI)
Scientists have revealed the origins of the world’s favourite coffee, showing that it appeared long before there were people to savour it. The research shows that Coffea arabica, the plant that accounts for about 60 per cent of the coffee produced...
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A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy partly hidden by a huge cloud of dust known as a dark nebula. The galaxy IC 4633 still shines brightly and beautifully in the main part of the image, but to the bottom right, you can see dark smudges of dust that are blocking the light from...
photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
