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For years (and with heightened intensity of late) people have been espousing the wonders of collagen on social media. Take it as a powder or pill for glowing skin and healthy joints or slap it on with your moisturiser to eliminate wrinkles. There have been lovers, haters and those who just want to know if there’s a difference between ingesting collagen and applying it topically. But evidence for its value has been frustratingly lacking – until now. A major new review has brought together the results from 113 clinical trials to show that while “eliminating wrinkles” might be unrealistic, there are reasons to be cautiously positive that collagen supplements are more than an expensive placebo.
Ras Laffan in Qatar, the largest liquified natural gas terminal in the world, has been substantially damaged by Iranian missiles and drones in a raid this month. The site turns natural gas into super-chilled fuel for transportation around the world (and provides a fifth of the global supply). The process is expensive and dangerous so it will take a long time to repair the damage. That means gas prices could be higher for some years to come.
The UK government has issued new guidance advising parents to avoid screen time for children under two and limit it to an hour a day for those between two and five. If this sounds like a daunting prospect with the whole weekend ahead, our expert in developmental psychology has a guide that could help. She shows that some types of screen use are actually beneficial, while others best minimised. She also reveals that how we talk about devices – and how adults use
theirs – are important factors in setting boundaries.
There’s little we like better at The Conversation than a blockbuster movie grounded in hard scientific fact. Project Hail Mary, out this week, therefore seems to be just the ticket. The film sees Ryan Gosling’s character Ryland Grace wake up with amnesia on a spaceship and eventually realising he has to save the world. The plot is fantastical for sure, but we heard from a physicists this week that the science – much of it based on Einstein’s work – is brilliantly
authentic.
Also this week, a landmark lawsuit makes social media companies liable for the addictiveness of their platforms, the US is heading for the moon and Pride and Prejudice moves to Leeds.
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