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Humans

Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better

Scotch aficionados know that adding a little water to their dram can bring out the flavours – now we have glimpsed more of the chemistry behind it

News

Robin Carhart-Harris

Humans

Meet the man giving people psychedelics for science

Features

baby being born healthy

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Al Gore

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture

President Trump talking

Health

Trump says he’ll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency

News

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Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

News

Side effects kill thousands but our data on them is flawed

Health

Side effects kill thousands but our data on them is flawed

News

Type 1 diabetes may be halted by experimental immunotherapy

Health

Type 1 diabetes may be halted by experimental immunotherapy

News

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Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

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Health

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

Does testosterone make men bald? Is there a love hormone? Do pregnancy hormones turn your brain to mush? �鶹��ý sifts the facts from the fiction

Features

Technology

Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water

News

Life

Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses

Culture

Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Culture

Technology

The renewables reality: clean energy hasn't risen for 25 years

Insight