Play hard and don’t lose first Test: Lamb’s lessons for England’s Ashes tilt
England go into the Ashes series as massive underdogs after disappointing results in six home Tests against New Zealand and […]
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Fine-tuning motivation in the brain
A characteristic of depression is a lack of motivation. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Bo Li, in collaboration with […]
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Watchdog bans seven ads in crypto ‘red alert’
Seven cryptocurrency adverts have been banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says monitoring cryptoassets, like […]
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TikTok algorithm wants you to stick around and come back, leak reveals
TikTok’s much-vaunted video algorithm is designed around two things: getting users to stick around and getting users to come back. […]
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My husband lets his daughter’s birthday overshadow Christmas and I hate it’
A woman said that she was sick of her husband celebrating his daughter’s birthday to such a degree that there […]
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Galal Yafai: ‘Being an Olympic boxing champion is something I can live with for ever’
The seed for Galal Yafai’s gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics was planted five years earlier. At the Rio Games […]
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Researchers find early developmental gene can cause deadly aneurysms
Mutations of a gene that regulates formation of blood vessels in the brain of vertebrates can lead to potentially deadly […]
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Birmingham restaurants in limbo as Christmas bookings slashed
The 50-seater Indian Streatery in Birmingham said more than 200 bookings had been cancelled since ‘Plan B’ restrictions were introduced […]
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Meta has a ‘moral obligation’ to make its mental health research transparent, scientists say
In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published Monday, a group of academics called for Meta to be more transparent […]
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Mum upset over teacher’s ‘unsupportive’ text but some say she’s being ‘unreasonable’
A mum has asked for some advice after receiving and ‘unsupportive’ text message from her son’s piano teacher, but other […]
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