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microplastic particles

Health

Microplastics linked to a greater risk of heart attack and stroke

People with artery plaques containing microplastics were about four times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke as those with plastic-free plaques

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Life

Hunger-inducing mutation makes some Labradors more likely to get fat

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Society

How manners can be a weapon to divide and disempower

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35-ton-capacity Prototype cryostat for LBNF / DUNE, Anode Plane Assemblies - Construction of the DUNE 35-ton prototype detector

Physics

A tale of two mysteries: ghostly neutrinos and the proton decay puzzle

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Coloured ultrasound scan of the abdomen of a pregnant female patient, showing a healthy nine week old foetus in the womb. At this age the foetus is about 5 cm long and weighs about 10 g.

Health

We should be open about organoid research to avoid a backlash

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Health

The hunt is on to learn why bowel cancer in young people is rising

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Floods in New Orleans after a storm surge from Hurricane Sally in 2020

Environment

US coastal cities face higher 2050 flood risk because they are sinking

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Humans

Ukraine may have been first part of Europe colonised by early humans

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Space

Weird floating crystals can stop stars ageing for billions of years

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Life

Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles

Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding to research on the transmission of culture among insects

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Space

Bizarre galaxy in the early universe died extremely young

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Humans

Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA

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Life

Is the woolly mammoth really on the brink of being resurrected?

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Space

Australia could launch its first private orbital rocket within weeks

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