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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

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Genetic testing firm 23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce amid financial struggles theguardian.com/technology/2…

Genetic testing firm 23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce amid financial struggles

Company says it will cut about 200 employees as value plummets in aftermath of huge data breach

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Exhaustion at work can lead to difficulty controlling emotions, scientists say theguardian.com/science/2024…

Exhaustion at work can lead to difficulty controlling emotions, scientists say

Working long hours can lead to people having issues moderating behaviour due to ‘ego depletion’, research shows

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Did you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru theguardian.com/science/2024…

Did you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru

The answer to today’s Inca-nundrum

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Asthma linked to memory issues in children, research suggests theguardian.com/society/2024…

Asthma linked to memory problems in children, research suggests

Condition appears to affect episodic memory but researchers did not assess how it caused deficits

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LED lights on underside of surfboards may deter great white shark attacks theguardian.com/environment/…

LED lights on underside of surfboards may deter great white shark attacks

Australian-led study using seal-shaped decoys finds lighting disrupts ability of predators to see silhouettes against sunlight above

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Covid denier who posted violent threats against Chris Whitty jailed for five years theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Covid denier who posted violent threats against Chris Whitty jailed for five years

Patrick Ruane had targeted individuals online including chief medical officer

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Can you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru theguardian.com/science/2024…

Can you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru

Deciphering an ancient number system

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The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review – the great scientist who created her own school theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review – the great scientist who created her own school

A fresh and feminist study of the pioneering Nobel laureate reveals her impact on the women she mentored and set on the path to prominence

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UK trial to assess if red grape chemical can prevent bowel cancer theguardian.com/science/2024…

UK trial to assess if red grape chemical can prevent bowel cancer

Resveratrol, which is also found in blueberries and peanuts, has been found to slow tumour growth in mice

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How a second Trump term could further enrich Elon Musk: ‘There will be some quid pro quo’ theguardian.com/technology/2…

How a second Trump term could further enrich Elon Musk: ‘There will be some quid pro quo’

Experts say new government could blunt regulation and appoint officials sympathetic to Musk’s brood of companies

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Missed deadlines lead people to judge work more harshly, study says theguardian.com/science/2024…

Missed deadlines lead people to judge work more harshly, study says

Research into psychology of people in US and UK suggests it is better to submit work on time rather than perfecting it through procrastination

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The creatine conundrum: can it really help your muscles and your brain? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

The creatine conundrum: can it really help your muscles and your brain?

Long favoured by bodybuilders and other athletes, this supplement is breaking out into the mainstream, as study after study suggests a host of benefits for our minds as well as our bodies. Are there...

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‘Rachel had been ready to leave me if our IVF hadn’t worked’: writer Jack Thorne on how his family’s fertility struggles inspired his new film theguardian.com/film/2024/no…

‘Rachel had been ready to leave me if our IVF hadn’t worked’: writer Jack Thorne on how his...

The screenwriter behind hit TV dramas National Treasure and Kiri, as well as the Harry Potter stage play, talks about his new, more personal project created with his wife - a feature film, Joy,...

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Children taken away from parents due to misreporting of drug tests, say experts theguardian.com/law/2024/nov…

Children taken away from parents due to misreporting of drug tests, say experts

Process for interpreting hair-strand tests can be misleading and carries a risk of racial bias, according to campaigners in England and Wales

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‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences theguardian.com/society/2024…

‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences

From inappropriate behaviour to encouraging patients to stop medication, reckless therapists can cause real damage

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Elephants can wash with a hose – and sabotage shower time, scientists say theguardian.com/science/2024…

Elephants can wash with a hose – and sabotage shower time, scientists say

An elephant at Berlin zoo used its trunk to interrupt flow of water from hose used by another elephant

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‘Exciting’ new lupus treatment could end need for lifelong medication theguardian.com/science/2024…

‘Exciting’ new lupus treatment could end need for lifelong medication

CAR T-cell genetic therapy, typically used in cancer patients, could lead to cure for the disease, says expert

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More than an hour of exercise a week may help with ‘baby blues’, says study theguardian.com/society/2024…

More than an hour of exercise a week may help with ‘baby blues’, says study

Moderate exercise such as brisk walking may almost halve new mothers’ risk of major depression, analysis suggests

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Identity of casts of victims at Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests theguardian.com/science/2024…

Identity of casts of victims at Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests

Scientists studying DNA find one person in scene of cowering family was a man and not a ‘mother’

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