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Whale swimming past plastic

Earth

Plastic waste is a problem – but some solutions are even worse

Plastics have done wonders for hygiene and human health. We need to fix the waste problem – but don’t throw out the baby with the bath tub

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Lady refusing a glass of wine

Health

Let’s all heed the health benefits of a month without alcohol

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plastic bags

Earth

Fixing planet plastic: How we'll really solve our waste problem

Features

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Humans

Let’s hear it for psychology, a better than average science

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Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat

Health

Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat

Features

Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys

Health

Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys

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Technology

Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism

Culture

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Humans

Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow

Culture

Lady painting

Health

Creative people are 90 per cent more likely to get schizophrenia

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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

Humans

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

A gene variant that helps humans cope with colder climates also seems to have put people living in northerly regions at a higher risk of migraine

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Health

First US death due to romaine lettuce as E. coli outbreak widens

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Life

High times: The Victorian doctor who promoted medical marijuana

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Technology

Brexit and Trump votes screwed with our heart rates for months

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Health

Mediterranean diet delays Alzheimer's for three extra years

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