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diet and exercise

Display of cakes and scones with gluten-free label

Health

That faddish gluten-free diet may be raising your diabetes risk

Going gluten-free without a diagnosis? Growing evidence of potential health harms suggests you might want to think again, says Angry Chef Anthony Warner

Comment

Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used

Life

Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

Humans

Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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protest

Earth

Green thinking in the era of Trump

Culture

True's beaked whale

Life

First-ever underwater video of the elusive True's beaked whale

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Maize in the sun

Life

Brighter sky helped boost US crop yields – but it may not last

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Power station chimney

Earth

UK’s CO2 emissions lowest since 19th century as coal use falls

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Earth

Sponge can soak up and release spilled oil hundreds of times

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Artificial mouse embryo

Health

Artificial embryo grown in a dish from two types of stem cells

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phones

Technology

Technoaddicts: turn on, touch in, swipe out

Once it was substances, now increasingly it's behaviours – a new book argues that our gadgets are designed to keep us obsessively scrolling and tapping

Culture

Earth

Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story

Culture

Earth

A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO2, mainly from fertiliser

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Health

Why we are so bad at spotting if our kids are overweight

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Health

Having a cigarette may make your body crave coffee too

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