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Running shoes with higher heels could increase your risk of leg injury

Running shoes with an elevated heel may change the speed at which the feet hit the ground, raising the risk of injuries in the lower legs, according to a small study

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Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, place a cone on a self-driving robotaxi to disable it in San Francisco, California on July 11, 2023. Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, have been actively calling for participants to help protest the spread of robotaxis for malfunctioning and blocking traffic. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Our priorities are all wrong when it comes to new technologies

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2PEK6YC Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at London's Natural History Museum, moves a cast taken from the a skull of what is said to be a new species in the evolution of man named 'Homo Floresiensis' during a news conference Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. At left is a cast of Homo Sapiens skull. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)

Humans

How artefacts are found tells its own story – if we want to hear it

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Mathematics

How the history of maths is much more diverse than you think

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Oxygen-28 has 8 protons and 20 neutrons

Physics

Super-heavy oxygen hints at problem with the laws of physics

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Drones racing round a course

Technology

AI beats champion human pilots in head-to-head drone races

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A school building damaged from shelling in the city of Chernihiv, Ukraine

Technology

Earthquake sensors are tracking bombing attacks in Ukraine

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MXCB40 The newly created Peters Village, still under construction, on the bank of the Medway in Kent, England

Environment

Scrapping English river pollution rules will result in a murky outcome

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Technology

Implant lets people type on virtual keyboards with just brain signals

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Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread infections such as dengue, may be put off by some of the odours produced by bacteria on people's skin

Health

Your skin microbiome may affect how attractive you are to mosquitoes

Mosquitoes can be drawn to your skin microbiome, suggesting that one day a spray that alters your bacteria could help ward off bites

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Environment

Just 12 per cent of people eat half of the beef consumed in the US

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Technology

AI shows no sign of consciousness yet, but we know what to look for

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Health

Drinking alcohol doesn’t give people ‘beer goggles’ after all

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Technology

Toughest known structure discovered by autonomous robot lab

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