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Mental health ‘first aid’ training has no clear medical benefit

A review of the Mental Health First Aid programme, which trains members of the public to support people with conditions like depression, has found no good evidence of it actually improving mental health

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Technology

Smart toilets could leak your medical data, warn security experts

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The universe gets clumpier over time

Space

The universe’s evolution seems to be slowing and we don’t know why

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Health

Seven healthy lifestyle activities may massively cut depression risk

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Life

Red imported fire ants with painful bites have taken hold in Europe

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Technology

Computers that use heat instead of electricity could run efficient AI

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Health

Westerners sleep later on weekends than people in Asia

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Society

Can the UK’s new ARIA science agency deliver ‘moonshot’ technologies?

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Environment

Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold

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Health

Covid-19 linked to elevated risk of type 1 diabetes in young children

Children between the ages of 4 months and 2 years seem more likely to have antibodies that attack insulin-producing cells, a feature of type 1 diabetes, if they have had covid-19, which may show how viral infections can lead to this type of diabetes

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Space

Why it’s a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon

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Mathematics

Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem

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Humans

How humans brought cannabis to every corner of the globe

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Humans

Cave art pigments show how ancient technology changed over 4500 years

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