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Diet and exercise will keep your brain young – depending on your genes

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Diet and exercise will keep your brain young – depending on your genes

Following a healthy diet or exercising could impact how your brain ages, but the effects on cognitive skills later in life depend on specific gene variants that not everyone has

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Orangutans

Life

Orangutans and other great apes under threat from covid-19 pandemic

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Health

Diets do help you lose weight - but the benefits usually don't last

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Male bottlenose dolphins synchronise their calls to attract females

Life

Male bottlenose dolphins synchronise their calls to attract females

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Soya protein can help make lab-grown beef with the texture of meat

Technology

Soya protein can help make lab-grown beef with the texture of meat

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Lab-grown meat

Seafood

Life

Neanderthals feasted on seafood and nuts according to fossil remains

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The coronavirus owes its name to the crown-like projections that encircle the capsid.

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Viruses

Is your salad going to kill you?

Health

Is your salad going to kill you?

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woman holding sugar cubes and saccharin pills

Health

Our guts may sense sugar and low-calorie sweeteners differently

The gut distinguishes sugar from low-calorie sweeteners, and tells the brain what has been eaten within milliseconds, studies in mice and human cells suggest

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Health

Is running or walking better for you? Here’s what the science says

Features

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This week’s new questions

Regulars

Health

We now know how much our genes influence the risk of contracting HIV

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Health

The 'ancestral diet' doesn't make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes

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