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Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

Health

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

The lifestyle choices you make in middle age play a particularly important role in how your brain ages

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breastfeeding an infant

Health

A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

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Environment

Crushed rocks and fertiliser switches can cut nitrous oxide from farms

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A pygmy blue whale calf drinking its mother's milk

Life

Blue whale mother caught feeding her calf on video for first time ever

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RXCYW8 Air conditioner units on a roof of industrial building

Environment

Cool solutions could head off the climate-damaging rush for air con

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Life

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

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Environment

Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from cashew nut shells

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Life

Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species from Europe

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Technology

Dutch police trial AI-powered robot dog to safely inspect drug labs

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Humans

Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?

Outrunning prey over long distances is an efficient method of hunting for humans, and it was widely used until recently, according to an analysis of ethnographic accounts

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Health

Extreme exercise may help you live longer without stressing your heart

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Life

Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant

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Environment

Is climate change accelerating after a record year of heat?

Insight

Environment

Plastic pollution treaty would be 'failure' without tackling emissions

Analysis