Choosing what pictures to include in your online dating profile is a big deal. Most people want to present a decent mix of flattering, fun and relaxed photos that showcase the best of you. But there are some in particular that should be avoided at all costs, experts say. A team from dating app Wisp asked 1,200 people for their biggest photo red flags that make them swipe left. The survey revealed 83 per cent of singles judge profiles on photos before reading a single word of your personal bio.

Learning to play a musical instrument can protect your brain from aging, building up a defense against cognitive decline that lasts a lifetime. Researchers from Canada and China discovered older adults who had spent years playing music were better at understanding speech in noisy environments, like a crowded room, compared to those who didn't play music. Their brains worked more like younger people's brains, needing less energy to focus than older non-musicians' brains had to use to make up for age-related mental declines. Playing music was found to build up a person's'cognitive reserve,' which is like a backup system in the brain. This reserve helps the brain stay efficient and work more like a younger brain, even as someone grows older.

Across hundreds of reported near–death experiences, people see the same things with staggering consistency. Now, scientists have discovered that these brushes with death share a surprising similarity with another type of mind–altering experience. According to new research, psychedelic drug trips and near–death experiences often result in the same bizarre visions. Strikingly, a bright light at the end of the tunnel is seen in'nearly all' high–dosage experiences with certain drugs. Both types of experience also produce feelings of detaching from the body, encountering supernatural beings, and travelling mysterious spaces.

At the moment they may exist only in our wildest dreams or in Hollywood science-fiction epics. But humanoid robots that wash dishes, vacuum the carpets, cook and pick up dirty laundry could be available within a decade – and all for the price of a family car. These machines – equipped with hands, arms and legs capable of doing basic household chores – are currently in development around the world. Pulkit Agrawal, associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said: 'Silicon Valley companies are promising this year you can buy a robot, but my guess would be more like five to ten years, at least. 'The technology is progressing, but it's good to be realistic that it will take time to deploy.'

Whether it's taking on more responsibilities or staying late in the office, many employees will go above and beyond to try to get a pay rise. But now a study suggests that if you're not good looking, your efforts may be futile. Researchers from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in Baltimore have uncovered a'striking' link between physical attractiveness and career success. In their study, the team analysed the careers of more than 40,000 graduates who had completed MBAs. They found attractive respondents earned up to 11 per cent more than their colleagues who were seen as less good looking.

It might seem a little convenient coming from a group of highly educated scientists. But researchers now say that geeks make better romantic partners than any muscle-bound meathead. In a new study, scientists from Oakland University claim that intelligent men have better relationship outcomes and are less likely to be abusive towards their partners. And, in good news for nerds, the researchers even claim that smarter men are less likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction. The scientists tested the intelligence of men in heterosexual relationships and then surveyed them for a range of different positive or negative relationship traits.

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The art of cheating in exams has come a long way since the days of scribbling a few notes on your wrist. In fact, a new study suggests AI chatbots are making cheating more efficient than ever. Even experienced examiners now struggle to spot the difference between AI and real human students, researchers have found. The experts from the University of Reading secretly added responses entirely generated by ChatGPT to a real undergraduate psychology exam. And, despite using AI in the simplest and most obvious manner, unsuspecting markers failed to spot the AI responses in 94 per cent of cases.

Getty has partnered up with Picsart, a popular photo-editing platform, to build an AI image generator that's entirely trained on licensed stock images. The companies are calling it a "responsible, commercially-safe" alternative to current platforms. The service will only be available to paid Picsart subscribers and the whole thing recalls Adobe's Firefly AI model. That generator is also trained on stock images, though not exclusively. Adobe recently outraged users by updating its terms of service to indicate that it could access and use people's work to train AI models.

Every person's unique facial features may have been influenced by what their mother ate during pregnancy, a study found - with protein-rich diets leading to wider noses and jaws. Subtle differences in the way people look, from the shape of their skull to the amount of cartilage in their nose, are created in the womb by genes triggered by nutrition. The more protein that is consumed during pregnancy, the more active these genes, known as'mTORC1', become. Researchers say this can'fine-tune' a baby's facial appearance by tweaking the length of the nose and width of the nostrils, the shape of the cheeks and the prominence of the jaw. While the basic appearance of a human face is determined by the parent's genes, siblings often look quite different, and even'identical' twins are never quite the same.