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Health

Electronic pill monitors your breathing and heart rate from your gut

A smart pill can accurately monitor your breathing and heart rate from inside your gut, which may be useful for detecting sleep apnoea

Artists representation of cannabis and time

Mind

Time seems to slow down when you’re high – why does that happen?

Health

Genital herpes linked to accelerated brain shrinkage

Space

How to watch the Leonid meteor shower peaking this weekend

Humans

Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red

Life

Dancing monkey hormones shed light on harmful street shows in Pakistan

Health

Vagus nerve stimulation may help treat drug addiction

Apartment air conditioners in a building in Singapore

Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

Life

Bonobos are friendly with those outside their group – unlike chimps

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden

Technology

How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk

At a meeting between US president Biden and China president Xi, there was agreement on the need for more US-China government talks on AI safety

Environment

COP28 must stick to 1.5°C target to save ice sheets, urge scientists

Space

SpaceX Starship launch delayed: What time is the new launch?

Health

Sickle cell CRISPR ‘cure’ is the start of a revolution in medicine

Physics

Tiny lasers can be made from soap bubbles