An exercise as simple and accessible as walking can have significant health benefits for people with Down’s syndrome.
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A 30-minute walk three times a week was shown to improve physical health and brain function in people with Down’s syndrome.
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Hybrid viruses can emerge from co-infections. And we don’t know their effects.
Steel production in an electric arc furnace.
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Electric arc furnaces can use up to 100% scrap steel as its raw material, resulting in a significant reduction in emissions.
Damage to the Tarnavsky Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities was caused by shelling by Russian troops in 2022.
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When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.
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They have properties that make them essential for many products.
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Legal expert on the obscure law that makes King Charles and Prince Williams the heirs of people who die without wills or close relatives in Lancashire and Cornwall.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Sam Bankman-Fried (centre) leaving court in June 2023 after he was charged following the collapse of his cryptocurrency business.
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The general public may want tighter crypto regulations but is the UK government listening?
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Unlike many eye conditions, ocular syphilis is a highly treatable disease. But it needs to be correctly identified.
Buvidal, or long-acting injectable buprenorphine, was approved for use in the UK in 2019.
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Long-acting injectable buprenorphine is also known by the brand names Buvidal or Sublocade.
Henry Kissinger, whose death has just been announced.
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For every one of Kissinger’s brilliant moves, there was a bungling countermove.
Waiting By The Window by Carl Holsøe.
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Hybrid flowers became a metaphor for sterility at the end of the 19th century.
Militant: Hamas is believed to have teamed up with five different groups to launch its attacks on October 7.
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Israel is fighting a broad coalition of armed Palestinian militias in Gaza − and then there’s Hezbollah, just across the border in Lebanon.
Austrian-Jewish child refugees aboard the ship Prague on its arrival at Harwich during the Kindertransport in 1938.
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10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, addresses the UN, September 2023.
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Qatar has built goodwill – and business connections – around the world in recent decades.
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The desire to transfer the thrills of surfing on to dry land created the monumental culture of skateboarding, now vividly documented in a new exhibition.
Technicians installing panels in one of East Africa’s largest solar farms, Rwamagana District, Rwanda.
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Climate finance can help developing countries adapt to climate change and phase out their emissions.
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Microscopic flakes of polystyrene can enter brain cells and cause harm, a new study in mice has shown.
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If you’re worried someone has joined a high-demand group, it’s important not to shame or belittle them.
The five thylacine skins Morton Allport sent to the University Museum of Zoology Cambridge in 1869 and 1871.
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New research shows the uncomfortable and shocking truth behind a revered scientist’s reputation.