What Is A Fart Walk And Why Is It So Good For Ageing?

Posted on 02/08/2025 by Boris Clair

The benefits of walking are pretty undeniable.

A simple stroll can “improve cardiovascular health by strengthening the heart, thereby helping circulation, lower[ing] blood pressure, [and] helping in the prevention of heart disease and stroke,” Matthew Nolan, a chief instructor at Barry’s in New York City, previously told HuffPost.

It’s even been linked to lower dementia risk.

But in a recent Instagram Reel, Dr Tim Tiutan – a physician and assistant professor – signed off on the idea of adding some, er, gas to your evening wander too.

Stitching a video in which author and creator of the hashtag #fartwalks Mairyln Smith said she and her husband go for “fart walks” after dinner to help them “age beautifully,” the doctor helped us to “look into the science of fart walks.”

Yup, ‘fart walking’ really is good for us

Walking can help to improve “intestinal motility” Dr Tiutan said, meaning it can banish both gas and constipation.

But Smith explained that “the main reason we do fart walks is because by walking… we are helping reduce our chances of developing type 2 diabetes… as you age, especially after 40, you have a bigger chance of developing type 2 diabetes.”

The National Institutes of Health puts the age at which type 2 diabetes risk rises a little younger, at 35. Diabetes UK says that walking may help us to regulate insulin better.

A 2016 study involving people with type 2 diabetes found that 10 minutes of “light” walking following each meal did a better job of managing participants’ blood sugar than walking for 30 minutes at any one time.

That’s partly why a likely gassy (thanks to the “intestinal motility”) post-dinner walk may be better for you than you might think.

Exercise of any kind prevents “large spikes in blood sugar,” the doctor agreed (it can lower your blood glucose for up to 24 hours after completion).

The practice may lower your cancer risk, too

Walking “also lowers our cancer risk,” Dr Tiutan continued.

Professor Amy Berrington, Leader of the Institute for Cancer Research [ICR]’s Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Group, said: “There is strong evidence that getting enough physical activity is linked to a lower risk of many types of cancer in both men and women.”

Cancer.gov says we should aim roughly for 150-300 minutes per week of moderately paced walking.

So perhaps I shouldn’t have been as surprised as I initally was to hear Dr Tiutan say, “I totally support fart walks.”

What’s New On Netflix In August 2025? 12 New TV Shows And Films To Stream This Month

Posted on 02/08/2025 by Boris Clair

If there’s one thing August is usually good for, it’s having plenty of downtime to get stuck into something new on Netflix.

As summer gets into full swing, there are plenty of new TV shows and original films arriving on the streamer this month to keep us all entertained.

Whether you’re looking for binge-worthy guilty pleasures, revealing new documentaries or a twisty crime thriller (or two!), there’s a raft of new releases coming this month that will be sure to tick all those boxes – plus the long-awaited return of one of the platform’s biggest hit shows.

Here are our 12 top picks to stream this August…

My Oxford Year (Streaming now)

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Tell me more: If you loved the transatlantic culture clash of Too Much starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe (or the love-it-or-hate-it success of Emily In Paris), My Oxford Year might just be one to add to your watchlist.

Descendants fave Sofia Carson and Queen Charlotte star Corey Mylchreest lead this new romance about an ambitious American woman who moves to the UK to attend the University Of Oxford to fulfil a childhood dream, before she naturally encounters a charming local.

It’s also directed by The Inbetweeners creator Iain Morris, so we’re a little intrigued to see how the romance comes to life in this one…

Netflix says: “An ambitious American fulfilling her dream of studying at Oxford falls for a charming Brit hiding a secret that may upend her perfectly planned life.”

Perfect Match (Streaming now)

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Tell me more: With the current season of Love Island set to end in just a matter of days, the third run of Netflix’s scandalous dating drama should fill the gap for anyone who needs their fix of reality TV guilty pleasure.

Perfect Match brings together a host of stars to join the “Netflix Reality Universe” from shows like The Bachelor, Love Island, Love Is Blind and more.

Newly-formed couples are tested on their compatibility with a series of challenges designed precisely to stir up drama, and the new season promises plenty of it.

Netflix says: “Romance, strategy and sabotage are key in this scandalous dating series in which singles from popular reality shows compete to find their perfect partner.”

Wednesday (6 August)

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Tell me more: Get ready for your long-awaited return to Nevermore as Jenna Ortega reprises her star-making role in Wednesday. The show’s creator Miles Millar previously teased that “nothing happens that she’s expecting” this season when our titular heroine returns to school.

Bringing a few new family members and Nevermore professors into the mix, there’s a host of stars joining season two to complete the A-list ensemble including Joanna Lumley, Billie Piper, Thandiwe Newton and Steve Buscemi.

Netflix says: “This season, Wednesday’s journey is darker and more complex as she navigates family, friends, new mysteries, and old adversaries, propelling her headlong into another year at Nevermore.”

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Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist – one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma – at the interface of two exotic, materials made into a sandwich.

The new quantum state, called quantum liquid crystal, appears to follow its own rules and offers characteristics that could pave the way for advanced technological applications, the scientists said.

Reporting in the journal Science Advances, a Rutgers-led team of researchers described an experiment that focused on the interaction between a conducting material called the Weyl semimetal and an insulating magnetic material known as spin ice when both are subjected to an extremely high magnetic field. Both materials individually are known for their unique and complex properties.

“Although each material has been extensively studied, their interaction at this boundary has remained entirely unexplored,” said Tsung-Chi Wu, who earned his doctoral degree in June from the Rutgers graduate program in physics and astronomy and is the first author of the study. “We observed new quantum phases that emerge only when these two materials interact. This creates a new quantum topological state of matter at high magnetic fields, which was previously unknown.”

The team discovered that at the interface of these two materials, the electronic properties of the Weyl semimetal are influenced by the magnetic properties of the spin ice. This interaction leads to a very rare phenomenon called “electronic anisotropy” where the material conducts electricity differently in different directions. Within a circle of 360 degrees, the conductivity is lowest at six specific directions, they found. Surprisingly, when the magnetic field is increased, the electrons suddenly start flowing in two opposite directions.

This discovery is consistent with a characteristic seen in the quantum phenomenon known as rotational symmetry breaking and indicates the occurrence of a new quantum phase at high magnetic fields.

The findings are significant because they reveal new ways in which the properties of materials can be controlled and manipulated, Wu said. By understanding how electrons move in these special materials, scientists could potentially design new generations of ultra-sensitive quantum sensors of magnetic fields that work best in extreme conditions – such as in space or inside powerful machines.

Weyl semimetals are materials that allow electricity to flow in unusual ways with very high speed and zero energy loss because of special relativistic quasi-particles called Weyl fermions. Spin ice, on the other hand, are magnetic materials where the magnetic moments (tiny magnetic fields within the material) are arranged in a way that resembles the positions of hydrogen atoms in ice. When these two materials are combined, they create a heterostructure, composed of atomic layers of dissimilar materials.

Scientists have found that new states of matter appear under extreme conditions, including very low temperatures, high pressures or high magnetic fields, and behave in strange and fascinating ways. Experiments such as the Rutgers-led one may lead to new, fundamental understanding of matter beyond the naturally occurring four states of matter, according to Wu.

“This is just the beginning,” Wu said. “There are multiple possibilities for exploring new quantum materials and their interactions when combined into a heterostructure. We hope our work will also inspire the physics community to explore these exciting new frontiers.”

The research was conducted using a combination of experimental techniques, led by the principal investigator for the project, Jak Chakhalian, the Claud Lovelace Endowed Professor of Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a co-author of the study. The work was theoretically supported by Jedediah Pixley, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, also a co-author of the study.

“The experiment-theory collaboration is what really makes the work possible,” Wu said. “It took us more than two years to understand the experimental results. The credit goes to the state-of-the-art theoretical modeling and calculations done by the Pixley group, particularly Jed Pixley and Yueqing Chang, a postdoctoral researcher. We are continuing our collaboration to push the frontier of the field as a Rutgers team.”

Most of the experiments were conducted at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) in Tallahassee, Fla., which provided the unique conditions to study these materials at ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields.

“We had to initiate the collaboration and travel to the MagLab multiple times to perform these experiments, each time refining ideas and methods,” Wu said. “The ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields were crucial for observing these new phenomena.”

The research builds on previous Rutgers-led research published earlier this year by Chakhalian, Mikhail Kareev, Wu and other physicists. The report described how four years of continuous experimentation led to a novel method to design and build a unique, tiny, atoms-thick structure composed of a Weyl semimetal and spin ice. The quantum heterostructure was so difficult to create, the scientists developed a machine to make it: the Q-DiP, short for quantum phenomena discovery platform.

“In that paper, we described how we made the heterostructure,” said Chakhalian. “The new Science Advances paper is about what it can do.”

In addition to Chakhalian, Wu, Chang and Pixley, Rutgers researchers on the study included Ang-Kun Wu, Michael Terilli, Fangdi Wen and Mikhail Kareev.

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