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This method of predicting results has been shown to be accurate over 100 years of US presidential elections.
The language midwives use is an important part of the care they provide.
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Several familiar maternity terms have been abandoned after a consultation with pregnant women and healthcare professionals.
A healthy coral reef in Palau in the western Pacific Ocean.
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This may buy us time, but many reefs are still doomed without serious action on climate change.
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Some people like to use their sense of smell to tell if food has gone off. A food safety expert explains why that’s not a good idea.
The 10km wide Petermann Fjord in northern Greenland. The author’s icebreaker ship is a small dot in the middle. The cliffs on either side are a kilometre high. In the distance is the ‘ice tongue’ of the glacier flowing into the fjord.
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Some of the world’s biggest glaciers flow into fjords in Greenland and we need to know what they’ll bump into on the seabed.
The castor bean tick is the most common species in the UK.
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Ticks can spread a range of disease – including Lyme disease and the fatal Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever.
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Recent interest rate hikes are not just a problem for mortgage borrowers, many companies are suffering too.
Almost two-thirds of UK adults aged 65 and over possess two or more long-term health conditions.
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People who developed diabetes, psychosis and congestive heart failure, in that order, experienced the largest reduction in life expectancy
A beaver-like dam at Wilde Brook on the Corve catchment in Shropshire.
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A new study shows that river barriers, similar to those built by beavers, can protect areas at risk of flooding by storing water upstream.
Unrest: the murder of Mahsa Amini sparked an explosion of protest on the streets of Iran, which has been met with brutality by the country’s security forces.
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After seven decades of oppression, Iranians yearn for democracy and are willing to risk their lives to win it.
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Collaboration is often promoted as a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. But sometimes working solo is the best option.
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New research suggests many families of autistic children are reluctant to travel.
Water is important for your health, but it can’t boost weight loss.
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But it may have an indirect effect on weight loss – especially if you swap it for the high-calorie drinks you normally have.
You can track your menopause symptoms by using an app, a dedicated website or a diary.
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Tracking the many physical and emotional symptoms of menopause with a website, app or diary can help women better monitor their health.
Kurds and their sujpports demonstrate in Lausanne to protest the 100th anniversary of a treaty which denied them a homeland.
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While analysts fret over what Iran and Russia are up to in Syria, Kurdish aspirations continue to be overlooked.
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Overcrowding is associated with many other mental and physical health concerns.
Psychedelics can help uncover consciousness.
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We still don’t know a lot about how the networks of cells in the brain enable conscious experience.
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In the Japanese workplace, women face discrimination, restrictive behaviour and appearance codes and a lower glass ceiling than elsewhere. Only a profound cultural shift will change that.
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Bilinguals may struggle with hangman but they excel at remembering and categorising objects.
Springtails (Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus) are found in any damp soil.
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With more than one species for every person on the planet, soils are the most diverse habitat on Earth.