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And there’s a wealth of evidence to back this up. For example, a recent Harvard study, analysing data on 221,000 people, ...

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The pre-Roman baths of Pompeii would have been seriously grotty, according to an analysis of mineral deposits.

Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

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When babies are born vaginally, they pick up helpful bacteria from their mum as they pass through the birth canal.

A new study finds that climate change has already cut incomes in the US by around 12 per cent since 2000. The figure is a ...

Researchers working in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest found that mosquitoes captured deep inside nature reserves showed a striking ...