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• The positive impact a Mediterranean diet could have on brain health - The Independent

  17-03-2026 23:30 via news.google.com
  The positive impact a Mediterranean diet could have on brain health  The IndependentBrain aging slowed by over 2 years with unique diet  CNNDementia: Hybrid diet shown to reduce brain deterioration by the equivalent of two years of ageing  GB NewsMediterranean-blood pressure lowering diet (MIND) may slow structural brain ageing  BMJ GroupThe Mediterranean diet that could slow brain ageing - major new study  Daily Express
  
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• Quantum-inspired laser system delivers distance measurements with sub-millimeter accuracy - Phys.org

  17-03-2026 21:30 via news.google.com
  Quantum-inspired laser system delivers distance measurements with sub-millimeter accuracy  Phys.org
  
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• Amazing insect changes colors from bright pink to green to help blend in with local plant leaves - Earth.com

  17-03-2026 20:55 via news.google.com
  Amazing insect changes colors from bright pink to green to help blend in with local plant leaves  Earth.comHot pink bug turns green overnight? Meet the katydid who magically blends with jungle leaves  The Times of IndiaThis Pink Bug Is Not A "Rare Freak Mutant" After All  DefectorTropical Bush Cricket’s Hot-Pink Phase May Be Nature’s Perfect Disguise  Sci.NewsBright pink insect stands out to blend in, scientists say  University of Rea
  
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• Samsung admits Galaxy S26 Ultra’s screen quality is slightly hindered by Privacy Display - 9to5Google

  17-03-2026 19:05 via news.google.com
  Samsung admits Galaxy S26 Ultra’s screen quality is slightly hindered by Privacy Display  9to5GoogleSamsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Sets a New Standard for Night Photography  samsung.comThe Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Makes Me Wish All Phones Had a Privacy Screen  WIREDSamsung admits 'some variation' will be seen on Galaxy S26 Ultra's screen brightness due to Privacy Display  TechRadarGalaxy S26 Ultra vs S23 Ultra: One is great, the other gets by  Sa
  
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• Ultrafast laser pulses bring diamond-based quantum internet closer to reality - Phys.org

  17-03-2026 17:40 via news.google.com
  Ultrafast laser pulses bring diamond-based quantum internet closer to reality  Phys.orgBreakthrough in Photonics: ITMO Scientists Learn to Switch Light Without Heating or Mechanics  www1.ruUltra-Fast Laser Pulses Elminate the Need for Complex Optical Filters  All-About-IndustriesPerfecting Single-Photon Sources with New Diamond-Based Method  AZoQuantumLaser Pulses Deliver Ultrafast Logic  Optics & Photonics News
  
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• ‘Strong evidence’ of lowered dementia risk: the benefits of shingles vaccination

  17-03-2026 17:00
  A growing body of evidence suggests the vaccine may also lower risk of stroke and heart attackOne in three people in the US get shingles. Despite this, US vaccination rates remain low – about 35% of adults over 60, consistent with overall vaccination trends.“We have a vaccine that works really well,” says Dr Andrew Wallach, ambulatory care chief medical officer at NYC Health + Hospitals. “But there is a lot of what I call vaccine fatigue right now.” Continue reading
  
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• ROI (Return on Investment) review – hectic venture capitalism drama is a heady brew

  17-03-2026 16:22
  Hampstead theatre, London
  US businessman-turned-playwright Aaron Loeb combines medical tech concepts with knotty dilemmas and Mamet-esque dialogueAn earnest research scientist turns up at a sleek venture capitalist firm to pitch her idea with a set of old-school index cards. Willa (Letty Thomas) is initially dismissed by young gun May (Millicent Wong) until she realises Willa has found a way to predict cancer in the human body. It’s a sort of medicalised version of the “precrime&rdqu
  
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• Honey as a superfood: can it really heal wounds, fight superbugs and provide sweet relief for coughs? | Antiviral

  17-03-2026 15:00
  While it’s not effective as an antibiotic, some evidence suggests honey can help with wound healing – but good-quality research is lackingRead more in the Antiviral seriesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHumans have been consuming honey for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks used it as a sweetener, but also a treatment for burns. Hippocrates, often referred to as the “father of medicine”, championed the sticky stuff – mist
  
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• 'I can’t wait to get my hands on it': Philips' new OLED TVs promise brighter pictures across the whole range — and are the first with Dolby Vision 2 support - TechRadar

  17-03-2026 14:01 via news.google.com
  'I can’t wait to get my hands on it': Philips' new OLED TVs promise brighter pictures across the whole range — and are the first with Dolby Vision 2 support  TechRadarMove over LG, Philips' new OLED TV maintains one untouchable feature  T3Discover the new 2026 Philips Ambilight TV range  TP VisionPhilips AmbiScape extends Ambilight to Hue, IKEA, more lamps  FlatpanelsHDPhilips announces 2026 TV lineup with Tandem OLED, RGB Mini LED and Dolby Vi
  
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• Tips for downsizing recipes | Kitchen aide

  17-03-2026 14:00
  It’s not simply a case of dividing the ingredients list by the number of servings, our experts agree, but it is more often than not about common senseAny tips for downsizing recipes to serve one? Dividing by the number of servings doesn’t always work.
  Melanie, by email
  “It’s often just common sense,” says Kitty Coles, author of Make More With Less, plus a little maths – though, as Melanie so wisely points out, you can’t always simply divide the ingredien
  
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• Parents of teen who died in 2025 call for more government support

  17-03-2026 13:56 via bbc.com
  Helen and Lee Draper lost their daughter Megan to meningitis in October 2025.
  
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• Mythmatch review – a match-three game made in heaven

  17-03-2026 13:30
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  Ancient Greek gods, adorable raccoons and hypnotic puzzling from Olympus to the mortal realm and backThere’s been a trend for a while where familiar puzzle game genres are imbued with novel stories to give them depth and meaning beyond simply clearing a screen for points. Occult object sorter Strange Horticulture and historical romance card game Regency Solitaire are lovely examples, and now here’s Mythmatch, a match-three game in the style of Candy Crush or Be
  
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• Len Deighton obituary

  17-03-2026 13:24
  Writer whose ‘anti-Bond’ hero in his 1962 novel The Ipcress File had a seismic impact on spy fictionWhen he made the remark that he was “the most illiterate writer ever”, in an interview with Argosy magazine in 1969, Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, had already published five bestselling spy novels, starting with The Ipcress File, three of which had been made into successful films. He had also written two cookbooks and a comic novel, edited an iconic guide to London in
  
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• Loaded crisps: four recipes for the ‘perfect finger food’ – ranked from best to worst

  17-03-2026 13:00
  They are essentially nachos that don’t require cooking, but is this trend worth your time? There was only one way to find out ...Ready salted, prawn cocktail, pickled onion and smoky bacon – crisps are undoubtedly the nation’s favourite snack food, subject to a variety of staple and sometimes suspicious flavour varieties. According to one recent report, they were the UK’s snack of choice on 94% of “all consumption occasions”, often enjoyed with a complementary
  
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• ‘People say: be quiet and make your music’: avant-pop star Mary Ocher on her vociferous politics – and leaving Israel behind

  17-03-2026 12:52
  Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Ocher rejected the IDF draft for a life in Germany. As she releases an album inspired by the Weimar period, she discusses nationalism, AI and the future of humanity‘When I moved to Berlin 19 years ago, it felt like some kind of revival of the Weimar period,” says Mary Ocher, referring to the cultural glory days of pre-Nazi Germany. But then she saw “the tail end of this beautiful period. Now in Germany, they try to deport EU citizens who par
  
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• Nvidia forecasts $1tn in AI-driven orders by 2027 - Euronews.com

  17-03-2026 12:05 via news.google.com
  Nvidia forecasts $1tn in AI-driven orders by 2027  Euronews.comNvidia (Announcement): new chips, new guidance  Hargreaves LansdownNvidia’s Jensen Huang predicts $1tn in AI chip revenue over 2 years  Financial TimesNVIDIA Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI  NVIDIA NewsroomNvidia GTC 2026: CEO Jensen Huang sees $1 trillion in orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through '27  CNBC
  
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• Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

  17-03-2026 12:00
  As stories of men leaving their dates in ‘sketchy situations’ go viral, experts say these incidents could stem from big egos and poor communicationMJ calls what happened to her in Zion national park “small ‘T’ trauma”. She knows women have experienced worse from their partners. But she still feels the anger of being left behind on a hike by her now ex. “It brings up stuff in my body that maybe I have not cleared out yet,” she said.Five years ago, M
  
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• Tell us: how is the meningitis outbreak in Canterbury being handled?

  17-03-2026 11:04
  Health officials, schools and a university in Kent are working to contain an outbreak. We want to hear from those living in the area A meningitis outbreak in Kent has been linked to a strain that most young people are not routinely vaccinated against, with two people confirmed to have died and 11 more in hospital. Health officials have offered antibiotics to those at risk, as authorities work to contain the spread.We want to hear from people living in Canterbury and the surrounding area whether
  
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• Houseplant hacks: should I swap moss poles for plant stakes?

  17-03-2026 11:00
  Moss poles can end up looking tatty, but a sculptural stake is like a piece of artThe problemSomewhere along the way, moss poles became mandatory for any climbing plant. In reality, most are plastic tubes wrapped in fibres that shed, go bald and drop bits all over the soil. The “living totem” promise is rarely fulfilled, especially if you aren’t misting it daily.The hackSwap the fake tree trunk for a proper plant stake. A simple metal or recycled plastic stake gives your climbe
  
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• Totally Med: exploring Menton, where the French and Italian rivieras meet

  17-03-2026 08:00
  Feted for its warm winters and famous lemons, the seaside border town has attracted artists and writers from around the world‘It’s not France, it’s not Italy, it’s Menton.” The seaside town on the French-Italian border has changed identities many times in its history. It was the only town in France completely annexed by the Italians during the second world war, but has also belonged to the Grimaldis of Monaco, was part of the kingdom of Sardinia, and only became Fre
  
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• Thames Water is billing me for its own mistake

  17-03-2026 08:00
  I was suddenly presented with a nearly £2,000 bill backdated to 2020 when it had mistakenly stopped collecting my direct debitsThames Water has blindsided me with a bill for nearly £2,000, backdated to 2020. It turns out that it mistakenly stopped collecting my direct debits back then and has not sent any bills since.It admitted its error and promised to write off charges older than 12 months, but now it is trying to recover almost the full amount. Continue reading...
  
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• What’s behind the injectable peptide craze? – podcast

  17-03-2026 06:00
  Grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names such as BPC-157, GHK-Cu, or TB-500 – have developed a devoted following among biohackers and health optimisers. To understand how these unregulated substances have become mainstream and what they could be doing in our bodies, Madeleine Finlay hears from journalist Adrienne Matei and from Dr Anna Barnard, an associate professor at Imperial College London who researches peptides‘People are
  
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• What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

  17-03-2026 06:00
  Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its peopleIn 2025, when Elon Musk joined the government as the de facto head of something called the “department of government efficiency”, he declared that governments were poorly configured “big dumb machines”. To the senator Ted Cruz, he explained that “the only way to reconcile the databases and get rid of waste and fraud is to actu
  
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• Don’t upstage your friends! 19 modern etiquette mistakes – and how to avoid them

  17-03-2026 06:00
  In a world teeming with social media and smart devices, there are many ways to upset people, whether you’re checking your watch notifications or sending a voice note without a text to explain the subject. Here’s how to navigate it allIn an age of smartphones, social media and instant communication, it has never been easier to connect … or to offend everyone around us. Many of today’s most common etiquette breaches stem not from malice but from convenience: a badly writte
  
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• A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went viral. Why did AI say it wasn’t real?

  17-03-2026 06:00
  Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran warThe graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters of people standing gathered around them. Dozens more are marked out on the ground in front: small chalk rectangles, with diggers poised to complete their task.The cemetery of Minab, photographed as it prepa
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Trump vents frustration with allies over strait of Hormuz; US embassy in Baghdad reportedly targeted in air attack

  17-03-2026 03:14
  US president lashes out as European countries reject calls for assistance to reopen key shipping lane; Iraqi officials says several drones and rockets attacked embassy European countries reject Trump’s call for help to reopen strait of HormuzHow have you been affected by the latest Middle East events?Are fuel price increases making you cut back?Continued from previous post:Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has said she has no immediate plans to send her country’s maritime
  
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• Trump news at a glance: president threatens allies for not wading into strait of Hormuz as Iran conflict continues

  17-03-2026 02:10
  US president wants countries to help police the strait after Iran effectively closed the vital fossil fuel shipping channel – key US politics stories from Monday 16 March at a glanceKey US allies in Europe and beyond have ruled out sending warships to the strait of Hormuz, despite threats from Donald Trump that Nato faces “a very bad future” if members fail to help reopen the vital waterway.The UK, Germany, France and Italy, along with Australia and Japan, have said they had no
  
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• Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of deadly strike on Kabul hospital

  17-03-2026 02:08
  Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesman says death toll has reached 400 people ‘so far’ as Islamabad denies targeting facility for drug addictsHeavy casualties were feared in Kabul after a hospital that treats drug users was hit by airstrikes, which Afghanistan blamed on Pakistan’s military.Pakistan dismissed the accusation, saying the strikes on Monday – which were also launched against eastern Afghanistan – did not hit any civilian sites. Continue reading.
  
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• Trump predicts US will have ‘honour of taking Cuba’ amid power blackout

  17-03-2026 02:00
  US president declares he can do ‘anything I want’ after oil blockade plunges country into darknessDonald Trump expects to have “the honour of taking Cuba”, he declared, after a US-imposed oil blockade plunged the country into darkness under a total power blackout.The US president claimed on Monday that he could do “anything I want” with Cuba, amid US negotiations with Havana over the country’s future. Continue reading...
  
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• Ukraine war briefing: Russia agrees to stop recruiting Kenyans in fight against Kyiv

  17-03-2026 01:48
  No more Kenyans to be enlisted by Moscow; Starmer warns against fossil fuel ‘windfall for Putin’ during war on Iran. What we know on day 1,483Russia has agreed to stop recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight with its army in Ukraine, Kenya’s foreign minister said on Monday after talks with his Russian counterpart in Moscow. More than 1,780 citizens from 36 African countries are believed to be fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s estimates in February.
  
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• Train delays: compensation claims to be easier under Great British Railways

  17-03-2026 01:01
  Refund systems for individual train operators to be merged into single service under nationalised rail bodyRail passengers will be able to claim compensation for delayed trains directly from the website where they bought their ticket, the government has said, as part of a shake-up to make rail travel simpler.Passengers who use third-party retailers such as Trainline to buy tickets currently, have to submit applications for refunds to the relevant train operator for processing. Continue reading..
  
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• Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says

  17-03-2026 00:30
  Researchers project that reduced activity could contribute to half a million additional premature deaths annually by 2050Rising temperatures are making physical activity undesirable and even dangerous in many parts of the world, and as global heating worsens, it will further affect how much people are able to move.Researchers analysed data from 156 countries between 2000 and 2022 and modelled how rising temperatures may affect physical activity globally by 2050. Continue reading...
  
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• Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions, says review

  17-03-2026 00:30
  International researchers find ‘very little evidence’ medical form of the drug can treat anxiety, anorexia and other disordersCannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions despite the global surge in patients using it for that purpose, a review has found.Researchers concluded there was “very little evidence for its efficacy” in treating anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or opioid use disorder. Conti
  
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