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Health

The healthcare industry isn’t built for coming off medication

Starting a new medication is relatively easy once you have a prescription from your doctor, but stopping is much harder, because from research to revenue, the healthcare industry has little interest in getting people off drugs

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Environment

Why Europe could get colder as Earth gets hotter

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Health

Will muscle-boosting meds be the next big thing after GLP-1 drugs?

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Mind

How much water do you really need to drink to keep your brain sharp?

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Jeanne Calment

Health

How long could we possibly live? A new estimate is mind-boggling

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Max Pemberton, a National Health Service doctor, fronted the show "The Great ADHD Myth?"

Mind

Suggesting that ADHD is a myth is pseudoscientific and dangerous

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Health

It is finally time to talk about the impact of fluctuating hormones

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Humans

The cave where Neanderthals met Homo sapiens

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Technology

Feeding our books into generative AI risks creating a cultural void

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Mind

Why do people ask so few questions in conversation? 

We've perhaps been conditioned to not ask too many questions, in case it comes across as rude or prying. But columnist David Robson argues that asking people open-ended questions benefits our wellbeing, and doesn't have to be complicated

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Humans

We still don’t know when humans began

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Technology

We should decide how AI shapes the future, not tech firms

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Physics

Could we eliminate any particles from the standard model of physics?

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Humans

What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets

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