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Health

Workout patch delivers some of the benefits of exercise with no exertion

Injecting muscle cells beneath the skin of mice led to a patch of self-contracting cells that boosted their muscle mass, bone density and even markers of good brain, immune and liver function

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An illustration of the the varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox and shingles

Health

Shingles vaccine may lower risk of stroke and heart failure

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Mind

Lack of sleep may cause anxiety by making us less adaptable to threats

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Health

Risk of dementia could be halved with use of metformin

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Mathematical dice

Mathematics

Dice discovered that solve decade-long mathematical problem

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A cookie made using waste plant materials and plastic

Chemistry

Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour cookies

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floods caused by monsoon rains in Philippines on 20 August 2026.

Environment

‘Off the charts’ El Niño is already the strongest since records began

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glacier calving event in East Greenland

Environment

Greenland meltwater is intensifying European heatwaves

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Kerecis product

Health

Burns improve more rapidly after treatment with fish skin

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firefighters work to extinguish a land fire in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Environment

Super El Niño could lead to mega CO2 emissions from fires in Indonesia

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up

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Space

Strange gamma-ray signal could be most direct evidence of dark matter yet

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Health

Will personalised mRNA vaccines transform cancer treatments?

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Health

Two emerging tick viruses that can be deadly are spreading in the US

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Mind

Depression doesn’t shrink the brain like we thought it did

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