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Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising alternative to opioids

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Environment

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

Culture

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Features

Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

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Health

Rapamycin could make an epilepsy drug much safer during pregnancy

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Humans

Cocaine in mummified brains reveals when Europeans first used the drug

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Health

MDMA therapies hit a roadblock – what's next?

The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected the psychedelic drug MDMA as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, leading many to wonder whether psychedelic therapies have a future in medicine

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Health

The truth about the new class of Alzheimer’s drugs

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Health

How does the Olympics test for doping and is it good enough?

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Health

Why many studies wrongly claim it’s healthy to drink a little alcohol

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Chemistry

Hydrogel can preserve medications for weeks outside of a fridge

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