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Latest research has now shown that not only doestormentil have antimicrobial activity, it may also be powerful enough to fightmicrobes that are resistant to modern antibiotics.

One reason why insects have been neglected in conservation is that they are often ignored, if not feared, by many people.

The study represents one of the most comprehensive genomic analyses of eye pathogens from India to date.

A cup falling to the floor, a car speeding past on the street or a series of lightning strikes – for us humans, an event on the scale of a second is typically a blur, something we can just about register but not in much detail. But animals all process a different amount of visual information in a second.

Often described as a “silent pandemic”, antimicrobial resistance is currently one of the greatest threats to global health.

Artificial intelligence may be able to pass medicalexams. But practising medicine involves far more than answering questionscorrectly. It requires judgment, empathy and the ability to navigate thecomplexity that sits behind every clinical encounter. For now, at least, thatrequires people rather than bots. 

Research on yo-yo dieting has long indicated it can be harmful for your health. But a recent paper has now suggested yo-yo dieting might not be as unhealthy as we’ve been led to believe.

Muholi uses the non-binary pronouns they/them/their and prefers the term “visual activist” over “artist” or “photographer”. This makes it clear that their work is explicitly political and is intended to bring about change through transforming how Black LGBTIQ+ people are portrayed and perceived. Their photographs are a powerful meditation on Blackness and being. They summon a new and resistant form of visual language to expose and contest racist violence.

Rich in mood and texture, “Tunnel Number 33” unfolds in a landscape of dusk, sleet, and shifting shadows, where the past quietly presses against the present.

This voluminous coffee-table book presents a glowing narrative of Lahore’s last royals and features over 550 images together with numerous original artefacts from the author’s collection.

Cacti are icons of slow growth. A towering saguaro may take a decade to reach an inch tall and the psychedelic peyote takes decades to mature. Yet the cactus family is one of the fastest-evolving plant groups on Earth. Over the past 20 to 35 million years, around 1,850 cacti species have come into existence. Although this sounds slow, in geological time it is the blink of an eye.

The number of people living with Parkison’s is projected to more than triple between 2020 and 2050.