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Earth's helium is running out and it has dire consequences for science

Helium's essential for party balloons, but also for MRI scanners, physics experiments and space rockets. But supplies on Earth are getting dangerously low, warns Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Eggs in frying pan

Health

Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong

Features

Women have a higher risk of bone fracture after menopause

Health

Social stress linked to bone density loss in postmenopausal women

News

Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria

Health

Chlamydia may spread through the gut to infect new parts of the body

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Brazilian Thamires Cristina dos Santos Ferreira da Silva, 29, plays with her two-year-old son Matheus Silva, who was born with microcephaly, at their apartment in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, on November 30, 2018.

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Half of babies affected by Zika virus are developing normally by age 2

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Belly button lint

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Belly button lint

YouTube on an iPad

Technology

YouTube anti-vax videos are on the decline but are yet to be wiped out

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fungus in petri dish

Health

Deadly drug-resistant fungal disease has ‘infested' New York City

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Air pollution

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Air pollution

Ignaz Semmelweis

People in Science

Ignaz Semmelweis

Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover the importance for medical professionals of hand washing.

People in Science

Joseph Lister

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Parkinson's disease

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Medicine

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Ovarian cancer

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