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Delirium in hospital can be a killer for the elderly

Health

Delirium in hospital can be a killer for the elderly

Elderly patients are falling victim to an insidious epidemic of dementia. Can changes to the way they are cared for in hospital reduce the toll?

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The children who grow old before they grow up

Health

The children who grow old before they grow up

Features

Newts able to regenerate body parts indefinitely

Life

Newts able to regenerate body parts indefinitely

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Family ties doubted in Stone Age farmers

Life

Family ties doubted in Stone Age farmers

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Neurons with double DNA implicated in Alzheimer's

Health

Neurons with double DNA implicated in Alzheimer's

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Telomere Nobelist: Selling a 'biological age' test

Life

Telomere Nobelist: Selling a 'biological age' test

Opinion

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Health

Dye slows ageing and Alzheimer's protein formation

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X-rays show why van Gogh's yellows have darkened

Physics

X-rays show why van Gogh's yellows have darkened

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Female crickets fall for serenades of younger males

Earth

Female crickets fall for serenades of younger males

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Life

DNA trick throws ageing into reverse

The natural process of tissue degeneration could be reversed by switching on an enzyme

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Life

Extreme survival: Meet the immortals

Features

Space

Standing on a stepladder makes you age faster

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Life

Cousin virus suggests HIV may be deadly for millennia

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Space

Crater map rekindles debate over moon impacts

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