A study suggests those who sleep less than six hours every night may have a 16 per cent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The team at Uppsala University in Sweden found that, overall, people with the healthiest diets were found to have a 25 per cent lower risk of developing the condition, but those who slept less than six hours a day were still at increased risk.
The researchers said their work suggests healthy eating alone can’t compensate for chronic sleep deprivation, but admitted further studies are needed to validate the overall findings.
All three of Meta’s social networks were hit by problems on Tuesday, with some users unable to login, while others were logged out, unable to reset their passwords or access their accounts.
The website Down Detector, which collects status reports on certain websites and apps, reported more than 300,000 problems on Facebook, and more than 25,000 Instagram outages, while some Threads users also reported issues.
Andy Stone, communications director at Meta, posted on X that the whole thing was caused by ‘a technical issue’ and said they “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted.”
The list of games up for the EE Players Choice Bafta award 2024 has been revealed.
The titles shortlisted for the prize include the highly rated Baldur’s Gate 3, alongside Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077, Spiderman 2, Lethal Company, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom
Evening Standard journalist Vicky Jessop was on the judging panel for the award, and tells Tech & Science Daily what criteria they were judging games on, and which title she believes will win the prize.
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder are predicting the Arctic will reach what they call its first “ice-free” summer days in the next few years.
It doesn’t mean no ice at all though; “ice-free” is defined by scientists as less than one million square kilometres of ice cover, just 20 per cent of what the average minimum cover was in the 1980s.
Reaching that “ice-free” point at the end of a summer would cause huge changes such as increasing warming by reducing the heat-reflecting capacity of the white ice, coastal erosion, and pressure on wildlife such as polar bears.
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Walking lowers early death risk even if the rest of your day is spent sitting down, experts say the menopause is not a disease, and the electric muscle era is here: Dodge launches Charger Daytona EV.
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