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Magnesium: How Much You Need, Where It Comes From, and What a Supplement Can and Cannot Do

Most people can meet their magnesium needs from spinach, nuts, seeds, beans and wholegrains. A supplement helps a few, does little for cramps or sleep in most, and has an upper limit worth respecting.

Sep 21, 2026

Health

The Perfect Hot Chocolate: Rich, Spicy, and Unapologetically Comforting

Discover how to make rich, spicy hot chocolate with cocoa, milk, chili, and salt. A cozy, flavorful recipe with calories, nutrients, and benefits.

Jan 28, 2026

Better Coffee at Home Without Buying an Espresso Machine

The grinder matters more than the brewer, freshness matters more than origin, and the ratio matters more than technique. Three fixes that cost less than one machine and change more.

Aug 12, 2026

Fashion

How to Stop Gulf Summers Destroying Your Clothes

Heat, sweat, hard water and relentless sun age a wardrobe faster than wear does. Most of the damage is preventable, and almost all of it comes down to washing habits rather than fabric choice.

Aug 12, 2026

Trump and Xi Extended Their Trade Truce to 10 January but Left Rare Earths and Taiwan Unresolved

Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed the Busan truce runs two more months, shorter than the six-month extension many had expected, with soybean and rare-earth pledges still lagging. Two more Trump-Xi meetings are pencilled in for Shenzhen and Miami.

Sep 25, 2026

Business

Saudi Arabia's Next Growth Test Is Turning Investment Headlines Into Durable Capability

Saudi Arabia is attracting partnerships in mining, AI, finance and infrastructure. The strongest Vision 2030 outcome will be skills, productive firms and exports that endure.

Jul 31, 2026

Diving

Coral Bleaching and the Reefs Divers Love: The Current State

The fourth global coral bleaching event hit 84 percent of the world's reefs. Here is what that means underwater, and what responsible diving looks like now.

Jun 18, 2026

Diving

Manta Rays and Whale Sharks: The Encounters and the Etiquette

The Indian Ocean hosts some of diving's biggest animal encounters. The rules for approaching them properly matter more than most divers realise.

Sep 12, 2025

Business

AI-Hardware Exporters Are Living in a Different 2026 Economy

The IMF and UNCTAD describe a widening split: economies tied to chips and AI infrastructure are gaining momentum while many energy importers absorb the war shock.

Aug 2, 2026

Business

World Trade Is Breaking Records, but Prices Are Doing Too Much of the Work

Goods and services trade added about $2 trillion in the first half of 2026. Much of the rise reflects higher prices, leaving a more uneven volume story underneath.

Aug 2, 2026

Nearly One in Six Children on Weight-Loss and Diabetes Drugs Developed a Nutritional Deficiency Within a Year

A study of 2,031 young patients aged 10 to 17 found vitamin D deficiency in 12.4 per cent within a year of starting a GLP-1 drug, while fewer than a quarter had any nutrition counselling visit in the same period.

Sep 26, 2026

AI Is Moving From the Chat Window Into the Scientific Laboratory

New Genesis Mission commitments connect frontier models with national laboratories, supercomputers and experiments, where validation matters more than eloquence.

Jul 31, 2026

Xi Jinping Arrived at Joint Base Andrews for His First White House Visit in Eleven Years

Trump gave Xi a rare planeside welcome on Wednesday ahead of Thursday's formal arrival ceremony, the first state visit by a Chinese leader to Washington since Xi's 2015 trip. The two governments extended their trade truce to January and put AI on the agenda.

Sep 24, 2026

Technology

Fungi Could Turn Hostile Lunar and Martian Soil Into Something Crops Can Actually Grow In

A review of research on beneficial fungi, including species already tested aboard the International Space Station, finds they can relieve the toxic chemistry and nutrient gaps in lunar and Martian regolith that currently make it useless for farming.

Sep 27, 2026

Health

Dry Air Indoors: Why Winter Heating and Summer Cooling Both Crack Your Lips, and What Humidity to Aim For

Heated air in a cold climate and conditioned air in a hot one end up equally dry. Between 40 and 50 per cent relative humidity the skin, the airways and the furniture are all happier; below 30 they are not.

Dec 13, 2023

Diving

Reef Manners: Why Fins, Gloves, Sunscreen and a Single Touch Matter More to a Coral Than the Boat Above It

Coral is an animal with a skin a few cells thick. The diver who kneels for a photograph, the snorkeller who stands to adjust a mask, and the oxybenzone in a lotion each do damage that the reef cannot repair in a season.

Jun 4, 2024

A Black Flower That Lives Underground and Eats Fungi Has Been Found on a Thai Hillside, and There Are Fewer Than Fifty

Thismia daemona has no leaves, no chlorophyll and no need for sunlight. It surfaces only to flower, black with horn-like appendages and two orange patches that look like eyes, in an area smaller than a football pitch.

Sep 6, 2026

Europe's Leaders Met in Lapland to Talk About the Arctic, and a Russian Drone Hit a Train Two Kilometres From Poland

Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.

Sep 15, 2026

The Oldest Written Hummus Recipe Is Egyptian, From a Cookbook Roughly Seven Hundred Years Old

It contains four things and one of them is not optional. The supermarket version usually gets the ratio wrong, the ownership argument is genuinely political, and the earliest written record does not point where most people expect.

Aug 21, 2026

A Real Bavarian Soft Pretzel to Bake While Oktoberfest Runs in Munich Through 4 October

Munich's 191st Oktoberfest is under way on the Theresienwiese until 4 October. This recipe uses a baking soda bath rather than food-grade lye to get the same deep brown crust and dense, chewy Brezn texture safely in a home kitchen.

Sep 27, 2026

Tempeh Is Not a Meat Substitute, It Is a Four Hundred Year Old Food That Never Needed One

Tempeh was documented in Java in the 1600s as an affordable protein in its own right, not as an imitation of anything. Braised in turmeric and lemongrass then fried, it is the dish that shows why.

Sep 4, 2026

Tahini Is One Ingredient, and the Jar in Your Cupboard Is Probably the Wrong One

Ground sesame, nothing else. Whether it is hulled or unhulled changes the taste completely, the bitterness people complain about is usually a sign of the cheap kind, and the trick that stops it seizing is counterintuitive.

Aug 21, 2026

One Bunch of Beetroot, Three Dishes, Nothing in the Bin

A bunch of beetroot arrives as three separate vegetables that happen to be attached. Roast the roots, wilt the leaves, pickle the stems, and the thing most people throw away turns out to be the best part.

Sep 4, 2026

A Feather Inside a Tyrannosaur's Droppings Is the First Ever Found That Way, and It May Say Why Some Birds Survived

A nodule half the size of a golf ball, picked up in Montana in 2016, holds feathers, gar scales and the leg bones of a diving bird eaten 66 million years ago. Two of the feathers have a structure otherwise unknown until ten million years after the extinction.

Sep 12, 2026

Somebody Actually Measured What Five Varieties of Dates Do to Blood Sugar, in the UAE, in People With Diabetes

Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.

Aug 12, 2026