Touch is an essential part of wellbeing.
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From lowering stress to reducing pain, touch can have many important benefits.
Soil was key to making the Earth habitable.
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What fossil records tell us about when the Earth was first covered by plants.
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Reducing working hours might encourage teachers to stay.
Court hearing: an artist’s impression of Jack Teixeira being charged.
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The leaks have revealed much about shortcomings in the way the US intelligence community operates.
The Sanofi vaccine is the seventh COVID vaccine to be approved for use in the UK.
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A vaccine produced by Sanofi is being given as part of the 2023 spring booster campaign. An immunology expert explains how it works.
A bathing site in the Tjuvholmen neighbourhood of Oslo, Norway.
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The UK needs to clean its rivers and coastlines, and could look to Europe for how to do it.
Endometriosis can cause a range of painful symptoms.
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Further exploring this connection could potentially lead to better treatment of the condition.
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The west wants to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. But every move towards engagement with the Taliban is met with further oppression.
You might want to make booze a thing of the past.
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Cutting down on alcohol consumption before pregnancy can benefit the health of both men, women and their baby.
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Generational faultlines are made visible by the way we use punctuation and text formatting in online communication. Tone of voice is a tricky thing to convey.
Venn diagrams have helped the development of logic and computing.
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Entrepreneurs are more flexible than high-level managers.
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Researchers took samples of the River Thames for two years to track levels of microplastics.
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The rarely explained term is nebulous at best, and can mean many things – negative and positive – to different groups of people.
No phones in the bedroom.
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Screen time overload? Here’s how to regain control and boost your health.
A wounded pregnant woman is evacuated from Mariupol Maternity Hospital No.3 in March 2022.
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My research shows how international and civil wars have significantly increased infant mortality rates around the world.
There have been numerous iterations of Tetris since the game was first introduced but the iconic shapes never change.
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Cold war intrigue and an international legal fight were behind one of the most popular video games ever.
Particle physics has failed to find some of the evidence physicists were hoping for.
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Our two best theories of nature, quantum mechanics and general relativity, are incompatible with each other in many ways – leaving physicists to dig deeper.
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Access to swimming in the UK has been hit by COVID and the cost of living crisis and that has consequences for children and young people.
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Pegging slurs as a gimmick or banter, not only dishonours those who have died fighting against racism. It dilutes the violence racial slurs carry.