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Health

Looking after the fungi in your gut could be key to better health

Researchers are taking a new look at the fungi in our bodies and discovering they may be just as crucial to our health as gut bacteria

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Grandmother and granddaughter in summer enjoy harvesting vegetables from home organic vegetable garden.

Health

Cells from other family members live in you and protect your health

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Mind

The surprising benefits of having an asymmetrical face, body and brain

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Friends catching up over coffee on the weekend

Mind

The peculiar discoveries reviving the search for human pheromones

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Health

Why do we have taste buds in our heart and testicles?

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Health

A new understanding of how your blood type influences your health

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Space

A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper theory of the universe

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Mind

Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory?

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Environment

Grit salt on our roads is killing freshwater wildlife. What can we do?

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Illustration of sperm cells swimming. There is a worldwide decline in sperm counts, but we now have a better idea about how to fix the problem

Health

Sperm counts are down worldwide and researchers are discovering why

With sperm counts falling around the world, researchers are finally getting to grips with the underlying causes - and coming up with ways to reverse the trend

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Environment

Is cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch worth the effort?

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Life

Are there really freshwater manatees thriving deep within West Africa?

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Health

We’re finally working out why the Mediterranean diet is so good for us

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Space

Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon

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