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Women’s small intestines are 30 centimetres longer than men’s

A longer small intestine may improve the absorption of nutrients from our food, which may be required more during pregnancy or while breastfeeding

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Role-play therapy: Can Dungeons & Dragons help improve mental health?

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A very premature baby strapped onto the medical skateboard

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Skateboard helps very premature babies develop their motor skills

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Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed

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A scanning electron micrograph of a brown fat cell surrounded by capillaries

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Surrounding tumours with brown fat could starve them of nutrients

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How indoor air pollution affects your health and what to do about it

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AI can tell if you are sleep deprived by listening to your voice

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Why expanding access to Narcan in the US won鈥檛 solve the opioid crisis

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Two brain pathways identified that govern the urge to itch

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A light micrograph of a sperm cell being injected into an egg via an intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

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Test showing if sperm can puncture an egg may guide fertility therapy

Seeing whether sperm is capable of puncturing, and ultimately fertilising, an egg would help people choose the type of fertility treatment with the highest chances of success

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Ghana is the first country to approve highly effective malaria vaccine

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Swapping table salt for a potassium alternative cuts blood pressure

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Legal marijuana in the US may be less potent than packaging claims

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We must treat therapy with scientific rigour to see if it works

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