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JEDTX5 Different sorts of salt

Health

There’s a simple solution to our salt addiction – we must adopt it now

Physics

How materials that rewind light can test physics’ most extreme ideas

Health

How to easily satisfy your salt cravings without damaging your health

Mind

Why excessive positivity is bad for your health and mental well-being

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JEDTX5 Different sorts of salt

Health

There’s a simple solution to our salt addiction – we must adopt it now

Efforts to curb the amount of sodium we eat have mostly failed, so governments must now try a new strategy: adding potassium to table salt

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Physics

Time may be an illusion created by quantum entanglement

The true nature of time has eluded physicists for centuries, but a new theoretical model suggests it may only exist due to entanglement between quantum objects

Health

Risk of bird flu outbreak in cows causing pandemic is less than feared

Humans

Ancient snake drawings are among the largest known rock art worldwide

Technology

Bioelectronic patch uses living bacteria to treat psoriasis in mice

Space

China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft begins sampling on far side of the moon

Space

Stunning image reveals the intricate structure of supersonic plasma

Life

Ancient geese stood 3 metres tall and weighed as much as a cow

Health

Periods are starting younger and we’re struggling to pin down why

Environment

Cleaner ship emissions may warm the planet far faster than expected

Life

Small fern species has a genome 50 times larger than that of humans

Mind

Babies group together their squeals and growls to prepare for speech

Life

Snares are wiping out South-East Asian wildlife 鈥� what can be done?

Space

‘Unluckiest star’ may be trapped in deadly dance with a black hole

Health

Parkinson鈥檚 disease could be prevented by a recent tetanus vaccine

Technology

Hackers are using AI to find software bugs – but there is a downside

Life

Chicks link shapes with ‘bouba’ and ‘kiki’ sounds just like humans

Humans

Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest known attempt at treating cancer

Analysis

Technology

Can Google fix its disastrous new AI search tool?

Google's AI Overviews tool can offer impressive answers to search queries, but it will also make up facts and tell people to eat rocks. Can it be fixed, or will it have to be scrapped?

Society

Race is a social construct, but racism can cause real biological harm

Environment

Embrace wooden buildings for the sake of your health and the planet’s

Aperture

Johnson's abyssal seadevil (Melanocetus johnsonii) portrait, cleared and stained by scientists, showing cartilage in blue and bones in red. Clearly visible in this picture are the pharyngeal jaws, which are like small forks that work like a second set of jaws that can pull prey items further into its mouth. The gill arches and gill rakers are also on full display. RV Sonne, Cruise SO285, South Atlantic, Benguela upwelling region off the coast of South Africa and Namibia. Captive..

Life

Striking image lets you see inside a deep-sea anglerfish’s killer jaws

This astonishing image may look like a deep-sea monster, with its big teeth and gaping mouth, but the humpback anglerfish is really no bigger than your hand

Features

Health

How to easily satisfy your salt cravings without damaging your health

Could potassium fortification be the answer we're looking for when it comes to battling our unhealthy addiction to salt?

Mind

Why excessive positivity is bad for your health and mental well-being

Physics

How materials that rewind light can test physics’ most extreme ideas

Culture

Success hope ambition and dream concept. Surreal artwork. Businessman with a stair in a gate, business background illustration. painting

Comment

How to take on AI’s challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

An impressive and exuberant book by neuroscientist Christof Koch challenges the idea that simulating intelligence and consciousness is identical to the real deal

Comment

Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

Comment

快猫短视频 recommends Now You See Us at the Tate Britain

Comment

Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s novel Eruption fails to thrill

More

Fresh milk in jug on green nature background

Life

Why I won’t be fertilising plants with milk, despite what Tiktok says

Social media is adamant that you can fertilise your houseplants with milk, but I'll be saving mine for a hot drink, says James Wong

Tom Gauld on the cost of science

Twisteddoodles: ‘This model is quite hot’

Regulars

Solving the mystery death of a Danish black-headed gull

Feedback was intrigued to learn that a mussel has finally been found innocent of the death of a Danish black headed gull back in 1952

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Why is it harder to remove a shirt crease with an iron than put it in?

Is it greener to keep my petrol car or scrap it for an electric one?

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This week鈥檚 new questions

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