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Bone hormone released during exercise may lead to new memory-loss drug

Age-related memory loss might be reversed by boosting the effects of a hormone released by bones during exercise

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Only one in five UK adults would choose to live forever if they could

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Mind

Your brain power varies throughout the year, peaking in autumn

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Humans

Humans have shaped the Serengeti's ecosystems since the Stone Age

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Life

George Church: The maverick geneticist now wants to reverse ageing

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Apple peel drug makes mice live longer by targeting a cause of ageing

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Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

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Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

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Humans

Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater

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Humans

Have humans been sailors for a million years?

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Drugs that help our cells tidy up might extend lifespan

Ramping up the body’s ability to remove damaged cells has been found to stave off organ damage and cancer in mice – could a drug get the same effect in humans?

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UK failing child refugees because we can’t reliably verify age

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Calorie restriction may extend lifespan by changing your sleep

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Booby-trapped obstacle course trains older people not to fall

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Humans

Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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