Book of the dayScience and nature booksReviewFrom exercise to old age, the latest research shows that what we believe can have some very concrete consequences When dozens of apparently healthy young men who had emigrated from Laos started dying in their sleep in the late 1970s, US medical authorities couldn’t fathom what was going on. They termed the phenomenon “sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome”, but that was just a label for their bafflement.

Cannabis This article is more than 8 months oldWorms crave junk food after consuming cannabis, study suggestsThis article is more than 8 months oldWorms soaked in cannabinoid found to have stronger preference than usual for higher-calorie foods It is not just humans that get the munchies: worms also display the same craving for their favourite snacks after consuming cannabis, new research has found. In the study, published in the journal Current Biology, researchers managed to simulate worms getting stoned by soaking them in cannabinoid.

FamilyRichard Gregson was once married to the Hollywood star Natalie Wood. He recalls the terrible night he heard she'd drowned, and the awful decision he faced over who should care for their daughter NatashaI married the film star Natalie Wood in the spring of 1969 after we'd been together, on and off, for three years. We divorced not much more than a year later. The on-off periods were due mostly to Natalie living in Los Angeles and me living in London.

South CarolinaAlex Murdaugh trial: court clerk accused of plagiarismBecky Hill, who Murdaugh’s lawyers accuse of jury-tampering, alleged to have plagiarized passages in memoir from BBC article The court clerk who helped steer the murder trial of South Carolina’s Alex Murdaugh and has since been hit with accusations of jury-tampering – potentially leading to a retrial – is now embroiled in a plagiarism controversy. Soon after the trial, in which Murdaugh was convicted of killing his wife and son near a dog kennel at their Low Country home, Becky Hill published a book named Behind the Doors of Justice: the Murdaugh Murders.

Books This article is more than 1 year oldColleen Hoover apologises for ‘tone-deaf’ colouring book based on domestic violence novelThis article is more than 1 year oldBestselling author cancels plans for a colouring book based on her novel It Ends With Us, saying she ‘absolutely sees’ why fans were critical Bestselling author Colleen Hoover has apologised after she announced plans to publish a colouring book based on one of her bestselling novels about domestic violence.