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‘An extremely exciting milestone!’: landmark treatment slashes cholesterol by 62% with a single dose | BBC Science Focus Magazine (opens the original)
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A one-off treatment could lead to a cure for high cholesterol, according to medical researchers in London. In an early-stage clinical trial, a single dose of a new experimental therapy cut levels of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol by up to 62 per cent and kept them low for up to a year, raising hopes that patients could one day avoid taking daily medication for the rest of their lives. The treatment, called VERVE-102, is delivered through an IV drip and works by permanently altering a gene involved in cho
The simple questions that can expose any liar, according to psychologists | BBC Science Focus Magazine (opens the original)
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The best liars keep things simple. After all, when you begin practising the art of deception, you can easily end up in a tangled web, lost in your own lies. But simplifying your lies is easier said than done. One lie begets another. Entire backstories need to be prepared and remembered. New fabrications might be required at a moment’s notice depending on where the line of questioning goes. No wonder, experts say, that in the process of lying our brains are under serious cognitive load. In other
The simple questions that can expose any liar, according to psychologists | BBC Science Focus Magazine (opens the original)
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The best liars keep things simple. After all, when you begin practising the art of deception, you can easily end up in a tangled web, lost in your own lies. But simplifying your lies is easier said than done. One lie begets another. Entire backstories need to be prepared and remembered. New fabrications might be required at a moment’s notice depending on where the line of questioning goes. No wonder, experts say, that in the process of lying our brains are under serious cognitive load. In other
Earth's vast fungal networks are unravelling fast – and scientists are scrambling to understand why | BBC Science Focus Magazine (opens the original)
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Right now, beneath almost every patch of soil on Earth, one of the planet's strangest living structures is spreading. It's a fungus, though nothing like the mushrooms on your dinner plate. Instead, it grows as microscopic threads, finer than cotton, weaving through the soil and into the roots of most plants. There are several types of these root-dwelling fungi. The most widespread – and the focus of a major new study – are arbuscular mycorrhizal, or AM, fungi. They've been around for hundreds of
These are the most dishonest countries in the world, according to science | BBC Science Focus Magazine (opens the original)
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‘Italians are passionate. Swedes are beautiful. Brits love queuing.’ Many of us routinely make these kinds of sweeping statements about people from different countries. Most of the time, these generalisations are based on stereotypes, prejudice or experiences we had on holiday – not rooted in scientific fact. But, sometimes, scientists have the same thought: can we meaningfully compare the personalities of whole nations against each other? In one such attempt, researchers attempted to produce a
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