Heavy industry and dense urban populations both contribute to high levels of effluent containing toxic forever chemicals that don’t biodegrade.
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Huge amounts of PFAS come from wastewater treatment plants, new study finds.
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Everything you need to know about income tax, national insurance and more.
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No one seems to be taught about the function of periods. It’s time to take menstrual literacy seriously.
Forks are among the items that have been medically removed from a human’s urethra.
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Inserting objects into the urethra might sound like torture but for some it’s a sexually pleasurable act. Here’s what you need to know about urethral sounding.
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope.
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Astronomers have spotted a surprisingly diverse set of planet-forming disks.
Many people use tongue scrapers to remove the ‘biofilm’ from their tongue.
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‘Tongue scraping’ has long been a part of daily hygiene routines in parts of Europe, India, South America and Africa.
Appeasement: Adolph Hitler meeting Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio to Germany, in 1935.
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Between 1939 and 1945, Pope Pius XII put the interests of the Catholic Church in Germany before the fate of European Jews.
Sea lions killed by bird flu in Chile, April 2023.
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Bird flu is decimating species already threatened by climate change and habitat loss.
A make-shift Hindu shrine to Durga, Ram and
Hanuman, in Mumbai.
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Urbanisation in India is causing Adivasi communities to lose connections to ancestral lands – and to traditional knowledge and belief systems. Urban Hinduisation plays a big role in this.
Cillian Murphy won an Oscar for actor in a leading role in 2024.
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There are trainable cognitive building blocks of intuition.
Springhill Cohousing in Gloucestershire was the first new build intentional community in the UK, founded in 2000.
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From conscientious objectors to hippies and seniors, intentional communities offer refuge and purpose for people seeking a different way of life.
Porridge was one of the carbs Mark Taylor, 2023’s “Mr Universe”, included in his diet.
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Nutrition plays a very important role in the muscle building process.
Pregabalin on its own is typically not dangerous – but can cause harm if taken alongside certain drugs.
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Pregabalin is prescribed for a number of conditions – including epilepsy, anxiety and nerve pain.
Some strains of R gnavus have developed a sweet tooth for the sugars found in the gut’s lining.
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This bacterium has been linked to conditions such as IBS and colon cancer.
Animals in polar regions are at particular risk.
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If the climate warms by more than 7 degrees, the likelihood of extinction for a species increases, regardless of its other traits.
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Fasting is generally good for your health, but it needs to be done correctly. Ramadan mubarak.
An image from 17 March 2014 showing Filipino artists with a depiction of flight MH370, created to express solidarity with the passengers.
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Despite advanced technology and search techniques the rugged seafloor can hide objects much larger than a plane.
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If we need to use forensic techniques in space, we’ll need to understand how things behave differently in microgravity.
Women spinning and socialising. From Augustine’s La Cité de Dieu.
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The Distaff Gospels is a collection of advice around pregnancy, childbirth and health. It was shared between French women while spinning flax.
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Dogs may be a human’s best friend but there are limits – is face licking one of them?