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Lizzie Collingham is a historian of food and bye-fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. Her books include The Hungry Empire ...

People have profoundly altered the planet’s soundscape. It’s time to quieten down so that other species can thrive.

D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners.

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Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

In the study, which has taken two years and was posted on 26 November to the medRxiv preprint server 1, a team of more than ...

A naturally occurring compound involved in digestion lengthens lifespan in flies and makes old mice more youthful.