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Man swearing
19 December 2025

Swearing whilst exercising boosts physical performance
Shouting expletives during physical effort can boost performance and help people push harder for longer. The researchers' findings, published in the journal American Psychologist, suggest swearing helps people overcome internal restraints ...

Cheddar cheese
19 December 2025

High-fat cheeses could slash risk of dementia
High-fat cheeses may help protect the brain against dementia. According to a long-running study from Sweden, researchers found that people who ate around two slices of full-fat cheese a day ...

Taking a shower in the dark may help insomniacs get a good night's slepp.
19 December 2025

Showering in the dark may naturally beat insomnia
Taking a shower in the dark may help beat insomnia. Sleep specialists say the low-light shower trend, which has gone viral on social media, may genuinely support better sleep when used ...

The Grinch is anatomically most like a chimp, a cat, a dog and an owl
18 December 2025

The Grinch dissected by atonomy expert who says Christmas villain is most like a chimp and a cat
The Grinch is anatomically most like a chimp, a cat, a dog and an owl. That is the conclusion of Lucy Hyde, a lecturer in anatomy at the University of Bristol, ...

More than one in five young adults are turning to cannabis or alcohol to help them fall asleep
18 December 2025

Over 22 per cent of young adults use substances to sleep, study finds
More than one in five young adults are turning to cannabis or alcohol to help them fall asleep. New data from the University of Michigan’s long-running Monitoring the Future Panel Study ...

Evidence is 'far too limited' to determine whether artificial intelligence has developed a conscious
18 December 2025

Philosopher says evidence is ‘far too limited’ to confirm AI has developed a concious
Evidence is “far too limited” to determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) has developed a conscious. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, the growing claims about ...

King Charles and Queen Elizabeth
17 December 2025

King Charles selling boozy Christmas puddings based on Queen Elizabeth’s recipe
King Charles is serving up a festive treat fit for royalty - and shoppers can now get a taste of it themselves. The monarch is selling boozy Christmas puddings inspired by ...

Coffee
17 December 2025

Salt in coffee poses health risk
Sprinkling salt into your morning coffee could be bad for your health. The trend has taken off online, driven by claims that adding salt makes coffee taste sweeter and helps people ...

Festive dachshund dog at the Christmas Hyde Park Sausage Walk 2025
16 December 2025

Dachshunds descend on Hyde Park for Christmas walk
Hundreds of dachshunds and their owners descended on Hyde Park for the annual sausage dog Christmas walk. On Sunday (14.12.25), the pooches donned jingling collars and festive outfits as they were ...

World's tallest bedded Christmas tree / © Guinness World Records
16 December 2025

World’s tallest bedded Christmas tree crowned
The world's tallest bedded Christmas tree has been named. At Cragside in Northumberland, England, a Giant Redwood Wellingtonia planted in the 19th century towers at an astonishing 146ft 7in. The historic ...

Josef Kardinal / © Guinness World Records
16 December 2025

Man extends world record for largest snow globe collection
A man has extended his world record for his collection of snow globes. Josef Kardinal, from Nuremberg, Germany, has grown his haul to a staggering 11,017 items. What began as a ...

Filmmaker and ufologist Mark Christopher Lee
15 December 2025

Could the Great Pyramids hold the secret to the mythical Atlantis Hall of Records?
Hidden chambers beneath Egypt’s Great Pyramids could contain secrets that rewrite human history — and ufologist Mark Christopher Lee believes they may even point to Atlantis. Recent ground-penetrating radar scans beneath ...

People are being told not to take Ozempic to prevent festive indulgence
15 December 2025

Brits urged to avoid fat jabs as a method of preventing Christmas overindulgence
Brits are being warned not to turn to weight-loss injections as a festive fix to dodge Christmas binge-eating. Pharmacies say demand for so-called "fat jabs" such as Ozempic and Mounjaro is ...

Children who eat meat are typically taller than vegan kids
12 December 2025

Vegan kids are skinnier and shorter than meat-eating children
Vegan children tend to be slimmer and shorter than their meat-eating peers. Researchers from the US, Italy and Australia reviewed data from 59 studies across 18 countries, covering around 48,000 children ...

Justin Timberlake's Cry Me a River has contributed to the gloomier tone of modern pop
12 December 2025

Pop music has become more miserable
Pop music has grown steadily gloomier over the past 50 years. Hit songs are now packed with more misery, stress and emotional pain than their chart-topping predecessors, researchers claim. In a large-scale ...

Dogs often dream about their lives
12 December 2025

Dogs have vivid dreams about their lives
Dogs have dreams about their lives. Researchers believe canines dream about places they’ve been, people they’ve met and activities they enjoy, with the tell-tale movements of sleeping pets offering clues about ...

Dark chocolate could slow down the ageing process
11 December 2025

Dark chocolate could help slow ageing process
Eating dark chocolate could slow down the ageing process. Theobromine - a chemical compound naturally found in cacao plants and described as a “relatively unexplored dietary phytonutrient" - is in ...

A free pill on the NHS could curb booze cravings
11 December 2025

Pill could curb booze cravings
A pill on the National Health Service (NHS) could prevent booze cravings. Acamprosate stabilises brain chemistry, tampening down the cravings that drag people back to the bottle. Although mainly prescribed for heavy ...

Nestle can not call two of its sweet treats 'chocolate' in the UK
11 December 2025

Two sweet treats banned from calling themselves 'chocolate'
Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband are no longer considered "chocolate" bars. Confectionery giant Nestle has changed the recipes of the beloved sweet treats to save on soaring cocoa costs, slashing the ...

10 December 2025

Social media is ruining children's attention spans
Social media isn’t just stealing kids’ time — it’s chipping away at their ability to focus. Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet and Oregon Health and Science University followed 8,324 children from ...

Humans are well-placed in the monogamy league table
10 December 2025

Humans are close to the top of the animal monogamy league
Humans sit high in the animal kingdom’s monogamy league. The research, led by evolutionary biologist Dr. Mark Dyble of the University of Cambridge, compared mating patterns across 35 mammal species. Humanity’s ...

Americans use more swear words than Brits or Australians
10 December 2025

Americans are more sweary than Brits and Australians
Americans out-swear both Brits and Australians — though they’re nowhere near as creative with expletives as the Aussies. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland sifted through an eye-watering 7.8 billion ...

U.S. President Donald Trump was 'fully briefed' on crashed UFOs, non-human bodies, and even alien–human hybrids living secretly among us, according to explosive new claims from whistleblower and retired Air Force Major David Grusch
9 December 2025

Donald Trump was ‘fully briefed’ on alien-human hybrids living on Earth, UFO whistleblower says
U.S. President Donald Trump was “fully briefed” on crashed UFOs, non-human bodies, and even alien–human hybrids living secretly among us, according to explosive new claims from whistleblower and retired Air ...

Garlic extract could be the best natural mouthwash
9 December 2025

Garlic could be the best mouthwash for fighting germs, scientists find
Garlic extract could be the best mouthwash alternative for fighting germs. According to a new systematic review from the University of Sharjah, the herb may be as effective as chlorhexidine — ...