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A brown plaque formed in a human brain produced by the virus-like prion that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Health

Experimental treatment could work against prion diseases like CJD

Prion diseases are invariably fatal, but an experimental genetic treatment has dramatically extended the lifespans of infected mice

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Fire Weather review: Why Canada’s wildfires will only get worse

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Fire Weather review: Why Canada’s wildfires will only get worse

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Sir Maurice Youge, Internationally renowned marine zoologist (1899-1986). His hybrid form is based on the local murex shell

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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef

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A group of Bonobos

Life

Male masturbation in primates evolved to cut chance of catching STIs

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Earth

Why is China drilling a hole more than 10,000 metres deep?

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�鶹��ý recommends: Curtis Sittenfeld's new pandemic romcom

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A pregnant woman walking in Hong Kong in March 2020

Health

Does covid-19 affect pregnancies and do the vaccines reduce any risks?

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Read an extract from The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

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Read an extract from The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

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Justin Cronin on the books, films and TV that inspired The Ferryman

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Justin Cronin on the books, films and TV that inspired The Ferryman

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Mind

How listening to audiobooks may be making us more gullible

More and more of us are turning to audiobooks for our reading, but a new study suggests that when we listen to a text rather than read it, we may engage in less deliberative thinking, says David Robson

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Life

Wild African primates have flame retardants in their faeces

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Christopher Paolini on the 5 space operas that inspired his new novel

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Technology

Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn't awful

Culture

Health

The weird truth about calories and why food labels get them so wrong

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