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Food guide TasteAtlas has released its annual 100 Best Desserts in the World list, with two Indian dishes earning a spot.

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago. By analysing the tar itself, Lund University researchers are closer to solving the long-standing mystery of where the attackers in the boat came from.

Because the feed rarely pauses, the natural breaks that help attention reset vanish. Over time, this can weaken impulse control and sustained focus.

The community of trillions of microbes living in your digestive tract, known as the gut microbiome, plays a powerful role in regulating sleep quality, mood and overall wellbeing.

If you often wake a few minutes before your alarm and feel alert and rested, it’s a sign your circadian rhythm is finely tuned. Your body clock has learned to anticipate your routine and help you transition smoothly from sleep to wakefulness.

Among women bodybuilders, nearly one in six, report using steroids, and rates among women in strength sports or recreational lifting communities are also markedly higher than in the general woman population.

Our ancestors didn’t associate mulled wines with Christmas, so it seems likely that the pairing was popularised by Charles Dicken’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol – like so much of what we now regard as a traditional Christmas.

Prioritise a positive outlook as a survival strategy and learn to appreciate the change in seasons. It's a typical Norwegian way of thinking that can make all the difference when there's very little daylight for months.

What controls the fate of the Antarctic ice sheet–and therefore the rate of sea-level rise–is how much ocean heat reaches the base of the floating ice shelves. But the processes that cause melting in ice-shelf cavities are very challenging to observe.

For 250 million years, coral reefs have played a pivotal role in regulating Earth’s climate by influencing ocean alkalinity and carbon absorption.

The brands' identities will remain separate, but Prada is likely to capitalise on the strengths of each brand.

This “internet of beings” could be the third and ultimate phase of the internet’s evolution. After linking computers in the first phase and everyday objects in the second, global information systems would now connect directly to our organs.