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If you often wake a few minutes before your alarm and feel alert and rested, it’s a sign your circadian rhythm is finely tuned. Your body clock has learned to anticipate your routine and help you transition smoothly from sleep to wakefulness.

Among women bodybuilders, nearly one in six, report using steroids, and rates among women in strength sports or recreational lifting communities are also markedly higher than in the general woman population.

Our ancestors didn’t associate mulled wines with Christmas, so it seems likely that the pairing was popularised by Charles Dicken’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol – like so much of what we now regard as a traditional Christmas.

Prioritise a positive outlook as a survival strategy and learn to appreciate the change in seasons. It's a typical Norwegian way of thinking that can make all the difference when there's very little daylight for months.

What controls the fate of the Antarctic ice sheet–and therefore the rate of sea-level rise–is how much ocean heat reaches the base of the floating ice shelves. But the processes that cause melting in ice-shelf cavities are very challenging to observe.

For 250 million years, coral reefs have played a pivotal role in regulating Earth’s climate by influencing ocean alkalinity and carbon absorption.

The brands' identities will remain separate, but Prada is likely to capitalise on the strengths of each brand.

This “internet of beings” could be the third and ultimate phase of the internet’s evolution. After linking computers in the first phase and everyday objects in the second, global information systems would now connect directly to our organs.

Instead, it recommended targeted screening every two years for a small proportion of men – those aged 45 to 61 years with a confirmed BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation.

Researchers verified that many products marketed as “mineral-only” rely on a broad palette of chemicals, not only to make them nicer to use but also to boost their sun protection factor (SPF) rating.

When men drink alcohol, it can cause both direct and indirect harm to children. On the one hand, men can jeopardise the safety and well-being of their children by making them targets of, or witnesses to, their own violence.

The debate had been building for decades. The first successful kidney transplant in 1954 showed that replacing organs was possible. Since then, surgeons have transplanted hearts, lungs and most recently, hands. Some surgeons saw a natural progression: “a face is just like a hand”, they argued.