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Should you stretch before exercise? After? Never? Here’s what to know

For many people of a certain age, high school gym class began with reaching for their toes. Then, over the years, we were told it was better to stretch after exercise. It turns out, both those things can be true, but the differing advice has…

27/07/2024

Federal control board sues Puerto Rico's governor over net metering law

A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances has filed a lawsuit challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, triggering a backlash

26/07/2024

Veterans lobbied for psychedelic therapy, but it may not be enough to save MDMA drug application

Military veterans have spent years lobbying for the use of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD, but a sharply critical review of the club drug MDMA has put the therapy's approval in doubt

26/07/2024

ChatGPT creator OpenAI release new product to take on Google – and it has already made a mistake

OpenAI has launched a new product called SearchGPT, which it hopes will take on Google. It uses AI models similar to those used in the company’s more famous ChatGPT. But it integrates it with real-time information intended to offer “fast and timely…

26/07/2024

Irish museum solves mystery of bronze age axe heads delivered in porridge box

A farmer from County Westmeath, Ireland, came forward after the museum issued an appeal for more information

26/07/2024

Chinese-Chilean table tennis player makes Olympics debut at age 58 in the Paris Games

Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile

26/07/2024

Cottingley Fairies cameras first to undergo state-of-the-art scanning

The five photographs taken by two young cousins in West Yorkshire caused a sensation more than 100 years ago.

26/07/2024

How to help speed up a house sale this summer, according to a property expert

Summer can be a tricky time to push a house sale through, with the school holidays causing distractions for both buyers and sellers.

26/07/2024

Global trade to go digital as UK and 90 other countries agree paperless switch

The new global digital trade agreement could boost UK GDP by more than £24 billion, the Government has said.

26/07/2024

Worrying video shows CO2 from US pouring into atmosphere

A hypnotic new model from NASA visualizes how carbon dioxide flows around the world and into the atmosphere each day.

26/07/2024