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Pumping iron regularly could cut risk of an early death, study finds

Lifting weights regularly could cut people's risk of dying early, a study has found.A combination of "pumping iron" and aerobic exercise every week reaped the most benefits, researchers said. Academics at the US's National Cancer Instit...

Blood test could identify long-COVID risk and allow early intervention

A blood test done while people have COVID could predict whether they're likely to develop long-term health problems, a new study suggests.If the experimental test is validated by further research it may result in people at high risk of...

Blood cholesterol medicine may be able to treat prostate cancer

Medicine used to treat blood cholesterol could be used to treat prostate cancer that no longer responds to hormone treatment, researchers have found.Scientists at Glasgow's Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre observed 12 participants...

Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day linked to a longer life

Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day could be linked to a longer lifes.Research suggests that when compared to avoiding coffee it was also associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease. The study's findings applied to groun...

TikTok may face £27m fine for 'failing to protect children's privacy'

TikTok may face a £27m fine for a possible breach of UK data protection law by failing to protect children's privacy on the platform.The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued the popular video platform with a provisional notice...

Why NASA crashed a spacecraft into a harmless asteroid at 14,000mph

A harmless asteroid millions of miles away has been rammed by a NASA spacecraft at 14,000mph. Why? The fate of the human race could one day depend on doing the same.It has been 66 million years since an asteroid crashing into the Earth...

Reusable contact lenses 'more than triple risk of catching rare sight-threatening eye infection'

The risk of contracting a rare sight-threatening eye infection increases almost four times for reusable contact lens users compared with those wearing daily disposables, according to new research.Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a type of...

NASA spacecraft to crash into asteroid in test mission for future threats to Earth

A NASA-built spacecraft will deliberately crash into an asteroid as part of a test mission later this month.The spacecraft, known as Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), is expected to collide with a 170-metre wide (560ft) asteroid...

'Brilliant fireball' that lit up the night sky was space debris, experts say

A "brilliant fireball" which lit up the night sky over parts of Britain was space debris, experts say.The UK Meteor Network received over 200 reports of the "fireball" being spotted in the night sky at approximately 9pm on Wednesday. Th...

How the Queen saw the tech revolution through her seven-decade reign

The year the Queen was born, 1926, saw the first demonstration of the mechanical television, with the first electric telly to follow the year after.It was an era when fewer than half of Britain's homes had an electricity supply and that...

Artificial sweeteners linked to higher risk of heart disease, study finds

Artificial sweeteners "should not be considered a safe alternative to sugar" after academics found their consumption was linked to a 9% higher risk of heart disease.Researchers from Sorbonne Paris Nord University in France also found ar...

New malaria vaccine developed by UK scientists 'could cut deaths by 70%'

A new vaccine could reduce deaths from malaria by 70% by 2030, according to British scientists who developed it.The prediction was made after clinical trials in Africa showed the vaccine, called R21/Matrix-M, was highly effective at pro...

Scientists find answer to 66 million-year-old mystery over dinosaur extinction meteorite

The meteorite that wiped out Earth's dinosaurs instantly ignited wildfires up to thousands of miles from its impact zone, scientists have discovered.The six-mile-wide meteorite struck the Yucatan peninsula, in what is now Mexico, at the...

Stunning 'Big Bang' picture taken directly above active volcano wins Drone Photo Awards 2022

A stunning picture taken above an active volcano and compared to the Big Bang has triumphed at this year's Drone Photo Awards contest.Armand Sarlangue captured the powerful image above the red-hot Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, look...

'You're not showering properly': Woman smelled her husband had Parkinson's - and helped come up with test

A woman who noticed her husband smelled different, before he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, has helped scientists develop a test that spots the disease.Joy Milne, 72, said her late husband, Les, "developed the smell when he was just co...