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pregnancy and birth

A woman with large rolls of fat

Health

Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

Babies born to obese mothers have shorter telomeres - equivalent to up to 10 years' extra ageing - which may put them at risk of diabetes and heart disease

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Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

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Women protesting for abortion rights in Poland

Health

Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves

Analysis

Robert Pitman

Life

I saw humpback whales save a seal from death by killer whale

Features

A zebra

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

A woman looking at her phone

Technology

Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be

Comment

Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz

Earth

US presidential candidates being let off hook on climate change

Comment

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Culture

A protestor against fracking

Earth

There’s no good reason to go ahead with fracking in the UK

Analysis

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Anywhen, the latest installation to fill the huge Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London, is very much a work in progress

Culture

Earth

First farm to grow veg in a desert using only sun and seawater

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Technology

The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever

Features

Life

Sound blasts could keep whales away from wind farm construction

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Earth

51¶¯Âþs demand halt to damming of Europe’s last wild river

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