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HIV and AIDS

Magic Mushroom Spores

Health

Psilocybin therapy seems to help some people give up drinking alcohol

Nearly half of a group who took psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, as part of a 12-week therapy programme reported giving up drinking months later after having previously been diagnosed as alcohol dependent

News

A pregnant person receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in February 2021

Health

Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

News

Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

News

Illustration of a clock in a spiral

Physics

Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

News

Deepwater disaster

Environment

Deepwater Horizon oil spill did no harm to BP's long-term share value

News

Human brain scans

Health

Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

News

A stock image of chromosomes

Health

Genetic errors cause most miscarriages, confirms largest study yet

News

An employee looks over a patient's file at the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, April 19, 2022. - On September 1, 2021, one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country went into effect in the Republican state of Texas, prohibiting all voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) from the time a fetal heartbeat is visible on ultrasound, about four weeks after fertilization. With a population of 30 million, Texas is the second most populous state in the country and this law has driven patients to the rapidly overflowing clinics of other states, forcing them to inexorably delay their abortion due to lack of space. (Photo by Fran??ois Picard / AFP) (Photo by FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Changing US abortion laws could dangerously restrict miscarriage care

News

A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

Mathematics

A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

Features

Harvest mice (Micromys minutus)

Life

Female mice release banana-scented urine when pregnant to deter males

Pregnant and lactating female mice release a banana-smelling chemical in their urine that is thought to stress out males so they don’t commit infanticide

News

Video

Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

Video

Health

Vaping may be an effective way to quit smoking during pregnancy

News

Life

Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers

News

Environment

How the war in Ukraine will change the way the world uses energy

Insight

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