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Human brain scans

Health

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

Some smokers lose their cravings after experiencing damage to specific parts of the brain, suggesting these areas form a network that somehow fuels the habit

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

News

A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

Video

Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

Video

Pregnant Woman Smoking E Cigarette

Health

Vaping may be an effective way to quit smoking during pregnancy

News

Bottlenose dolphins being fed

Life

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

News

Boston - March 6: People hold a banner reading Stand with Ukraine! Stop buying Russian oil as they take part in a Peace March for Ukraine from Copley Square to Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common in Boston on March 6, 2022. The protests marked the second straight Sunday people have marched through Boston, as Russias invasion of its neighbor entered its 11th day. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Environment

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

Insight

Dryopithecus

Humans

Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

A new family tree of apes that lived in the Miocene between 23 and 5.3 million years ago reveals which are our close relatives and which are only distant cousins

News

Health

RSV vaccine in pregnancy lowers antibiotic use in babies

News

Environment

EU lays out plan to cut Russian gas imports by two-thirds in 2022

News

Life

Fossil hints that orcas don’t have a long history of killing whales

News

Environment

Net zero: The UK is building its last big gas power plant

News

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