Urgent warning to fitness fanatics as scientist reveals gyms are 'riddled with germs' - including bugs that cause diarrhoea, athlete's foot, and ringworm

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 14:34 UTC

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Dr Primrose Freestone, a senior lecturer at the University of Leicester, warns dumbbells, barbells, and machines act as resevoirs for bacterial, viral, and fungal pathogens.

80% of Americans with dementia don't know they have it... so would YOU spot the symptoms?

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 05:55 UTC

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Researchers at the University of Michigan found that 80 percent of participants with suspected dementia had not been told they had the disease or showed early signs.

Revisited: are the world’s oldest people really that old? – podcast

found 2024 › Dec › 25 (Wed) @ 11:43 UTC

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In this episode from September, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has recently won an Ig Nobel …

Kate Middleton's university friend who shared unseen picture of royal at a flat party opens up about her 'magical time' at St Andrews with the future queen

found 2024 › Dec › 22 (Sun) @ 23:22 UTC

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Laura Warshauer, who was placed in the same halls as Kate during their time at the University of St Andrews, delighted fans when she shared an unseen snap of the royal during her student days.

Meat-eaters more likely to be disgusted by meat after taking part in Veganuary, study reveals

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 20:34 UTC

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Avoiding animal products – and alcohol – at the start of the year makes lasting changes more likely, say researchers

Meat-eaters who abstain to take part in Veganuary are more likely to think that mea…

‘I didn’t realize the role rice played’: the ingenious crop cultivation of the Gullah Geechee people

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 13:28 UTC

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Researchers in North Carolina used underwater sonar to map a system created by enslaved people centuries ago

As a former deputy state underwater archaeologist, Mark Wilde-Ramsing can’t help but look d…

Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 20:48 UTC

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McNeese State University in Louisiana building a liquefied natural gas center, prompting fears of ‘corporate capture’

One of Louisiana’s top public universities has prompted concerns about “corporate …

A string of assassinations, a faltering economy, a shortage of workers: the pressure on Putin is ratcheting up | Olga Chyzh

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 13:30 UTC

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A vacuum among his generals is the last thing the president needs. He will be holding his breath for Trump’s inauguration

The assassination on Tuesday of the Russian general and conspiracy theorist Ig…

The 50 best TV shows of 2024: No 3 – One Day

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 10:22 UTC

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A word of mouth phenomenon thanks to pitch-perfect turns by Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod, the David Nicholls romance provided joy, tears and 90s nostalgia galore

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The Christmas that went wrong: I was hungover – so I bought everyone in my family a Moby CD

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 07:05 UTC

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A term’s worth of techno clubs and afterparties at university in Glasgow didn’t do much for my education or my choice of Christmas gifts

When I left the north of Ireland for the University of Glasgow …