Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
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Why Aren’t We Losing Our Minds Over the Plastic in Our Brains?
New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...
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Plastic Lego piece turns up on beach 28 years after it was washed overboard when freak wave hit container ship
A plastic piece of Lego which was lost overboard when a container ship was hit by a freak wave has been found in a beach clean-up 28 years later. The small blue Lego flipper was lost when ...
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Kansas City's chess scene is seriously fun. Here's where to start playing and competing
Photographed against the Kansas City skyline, David Pentimone designed his own chess set based on the New York City skyline. A few years ago, he began working on a Kansas City-inspired set.
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Sweeping review suggests weight-loss drugs’ effect on 175 conditions
A study by the Department of Veterans Affairs on the relationship between GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and 175 diseases and conditions supports a lot of what scientists already suspected about ...
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Tiny pieces of plastic that break off from shopping bags and packaging blamed for rise of deadly superbugs
Tiny pieces of plastic that have made their way into human bodies could be responsible for the rise of deadly superbugs. Research has revealed that a build-up of these microplastics – minuscule ...
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Starship upper stage lost on seventh test flight, debris seen spewing in sky
Rocket debris from a SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy booster was spotted in the sky after a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" before part of the device successfully returned to its "chopsticks" for a ...