Six fun facts about the human skeleton
Adam Taylor, Lancaster University and Rebecca Shepherd, Lancaster University Bones are amazing. People are often surprised to learn that bone
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Three reasons you have neck pain – and why ‘bad posture’ probably isn’t one of them
Christian Worsfold, University of Hertfordshire If you suffer from neck pain, you’re not alone. Spinal pain is one of the
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Can surgical masks protect you from getting the flu?
Manal Mohammed, University of Westminster Australia has just suffered a severe flu season, with 299,211 laboratory-confirmed cases, at last count,
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Does cannabis cure cancer? We asked an expert
David Robert Grimes, Queen’s University Belfast For thousands of years people have used cannabis for recreational, ritualistic and medicinal purposes.
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Why body mass index and sexual orientation study raises health concerns for lesbian and gay people
Joanna Semlyen, University of East Anglia Despite recent legal advances in the UK, such as the Equality Act 2010 and
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Five animals that could help us beat human diseases
Adam Taylor, Lancaster University As humans, we may feel rather lucky about our evolutionary lot. We live longer than many
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Are emulsifiers bad? Not enough evidence to say we should stop eating them
Dominic Partridge, University of Aberdeen and Alex Johnstone, University of Aberdeen Food additives do a lot of good: they prolong
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Being left-handed doesn’t mean you are right-brained — so what does it mean?
Emma Karlsson, Bangor University There have been plenty of claims about what being left-handed means, and whether it changes the
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Using AI to predict breast cancer and personalize care
MIT/MGH’s image-based deep learning model can predict breast cancer up to five years in advance. Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon
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Human-animal hybrids are coming and could be used to grow organs for transplant – a philosopher weighs in
Mackenzie Graham, University of Oxford Around the world thousands of people are on organ donor waiting lists. While some of
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