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Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how ‘like us’ monkeys are
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Report outlines ‘research waste’ that occurred during the pandemic, with weakly designed trials exposing millions to unproven treatments
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Constellation is now on opposite side of sky to the sun and best placed for night-time observation
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Pioneering Bristol study blames the solid-fuel burners in people’s homes for breaches of World Health Organisation guidelines
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
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Scientists have found 3% of the population need less shut-eye than the rest of us. Could I train myself to be one of them, asks Arwa Mahdawi
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The law guaranteed lifelong anonymity needs to change, says Dorothy Byrne, president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
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Climate change is likely to exacerbate the rapid spread of viruses and pathogens, says John Vidal, former Guardian environment editor
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Only two new medicines have been approved for use during pregnancy in the last 40 years. Ian Sample talks to women’s health professor Peter Brocklehurst about why pregnant women are so often excluded from pharmaceutical research and development, and how we can make sure they benefit from modern medicine
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Ian Sample talks to virologist Oyewale Tomori about why monkeypox is flaring up, whether we should fear it, and what we can learn from countries such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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By studying isotopes scientists hope to gain insight into how elements within exploding stars came to be
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The virus’s behaviour in highly vaccinated countries may offer clues to our future with the disease, says Aris Katzourakis, a professor in viral evolution at Oxford University
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Only two new medicines have been approved for use during pregnancy in the last 40 years. Ian Sample talks to women’s health professor Peter Brocklehurst about why pregnant women are so often excluded from pharmaceutical research and development, and how we can make sure they benefit from modern medicine
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The Milky Way photographer of the year winners are selected every year by the travel blog Capture the Atlas. The Milky Way season ranges from February to October in the northern hemisphere and from January to November in the southern hemisphere
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Dramatic total lunar eclipse coincided with a super moon, when the moon is at its closest point to Earth and reflects a red and orange light
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