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Environment

Sustainable fashion: How to cut the environmental cost of your clothes

From renting clothes to ditching the tumble drier, there are plenty of things you can do to reduce the environmental price tag of your wardrobe

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Mathematics

A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

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Health

Plague never went away – now it could re-emerge in drug-resistant form

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Health

How many people died due to the Black Death in Europe?

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Environment

Do we need nuclear power in the energy mix to stop climate change?

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Humans

The female body is misunderstood and this is why, says Rachel E. Gross

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Life

How the massive dogs bred to protect livestock could save wolves too

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Space

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

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Mind

The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence

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Physics

Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?

For decades, measurements of the universe's expansion have suggested a discrepancy known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to transform cosmology. But a new method suggests the tension may not exist after all

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Health

Fascia: The long-overlooked tissue that shapes your health

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Humans

Frans de Waal on what apes can teach us about sex and gender

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Health

A new weight loss drug could be used to prevent obesity. Will it work?

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Earth

What are the mysterious continent-sized lumps deep inside Earth?

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