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The “milpa” systemMatilde Gattoni For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that fuses ...

Don’t ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them

We need a social media site that is designed specifically for children and teenagers. And we need to do it ...

Blueprints review: Marcus du Sautoy’s new book is good on maths, less so on the arts

Le Corbusier used Fibonacci sequences in his building designs, like this one in Marseille, FranceChris Hellier/Alamy BlueprintsMarcus du Sautoy (Fourth ...

Climate drama Families Like Ours deserves to be a word-of-mouth hit

Laura (Amaryllis August) and her parents set out for Paris when floods hitBBC/Zentropa Entertainments/StudioCanal/CANAL+/TV 2/Per Arnesen Families Like OursBBC iPlayer ...

Can we get better at spotting when someone is lying?

“Countless studies have shown that most of us are pretty abysmal at lie detection”Chloeimages/Alamy Distinguishing fact from fiction is one ...

What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

Given a choice between two sea snail shells, hermit crabs know which will make a better home. That is, unless ...

Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all complex life

An artist’s impression of Earth in the Archaean Eon, 3.8 billion to 2.5 billion years agoCHRISTIAN JEGOU/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Mysterious ...

The birds upending our idea of shared parenting

Superb starlings take an unusual approach to co-parentingGrahame Cornforth / Alamy Stock Photo They say it takes a village to ...

Concerns raised over Foresight AI trained on 57 million NHS medical records

The Foresight AI model uses data taken from hospital and family doctor records in EnglandHannah McKay/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images An ...

Unhealthy Lifestyles Linked to Faster Heart Aging, Study Finds

Share on PinterestResearchers have developed a novel way to measure a “functional heart age” using MRI scans. SeventyFour/Getty ImagesCardiologists are ...

5 Ways Medicaid Cuts Could Impact Health

Share on Pinterestcuts could have a significant impact on low-income households, older adults, children, and other vulnerable groups. Maskot/Getty ImagesRepublican ...

England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edited plants. Hooray!

Normal potatoes like these turn brown when they are sliced openFormatoriginal / Alamy The potatoes I am eating are nice, ...

Essex teenager left unable to eat due to rare digestive condition

Stuart WoodwardBBC News, EssexSteve Hubbard/BBCFinley has received weekly lipid infusions directly into his heart since he was fourLike most teenagers ...

Doctors told my mum poison symptoms were anxiety

Neve Gordon-FarleighBBC News, EssexJamie Niblock/BBCEllena Baxter says witnessing her mother suffer was "devastating" The daughter of a couple who were ...

Nothing is stronger than quantum connections – and now we know why

Quantum correlations are the strongest ones ever measuredSAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The strange connections between quantum objects are the strongest relationships ...

Why physicists keep trying to get rid of space-time entirely

Space-time is considered the fabric of physical realityScience Photo Library/Alamy The first time a physicist told me they wanted to ...

Geologic hydrogen: A clean energy source may be lurking beneath mountain ranges

Is there hydrogen to be found beneath the Grisons mountains in Switzerland?Thomas Stoiber / Alamy Mountain ranges could be a ...

Chronic pain could be eased by learning to regulate negative emotions

Some people live with pain for years or even decadesAsiaVision/Getty Images Learning how to regulate negative emotions like anxiety could ...

The Millennium Problems: What 7 fiendishly hard puzzles tell us about the nature of mathematics