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Health

Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins

A software error means that around a third of UK family doctors have been miscalculating whether people need medicine to avoid a heart attack since 2009

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Life

High antidepressant use could lead to UK public health disaster

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Humans

What is Paleolithic Art?: How to decode the shadows on the wall

Culture

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Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

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Life

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

Features

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Technology

If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive?

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Health

Muscular dystrophy is tragic, but patients aren't always right

Analysis

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Life

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Health

Prescription monitoring system to curb drug abuse in Australia

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Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

Prion proteins are infamous for their role in mad cow disease, but they also help yeasts form memories. They have now been discovered in plants

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Health

Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

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Life

21-million-year-old fossil is North America's first monkey

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Life

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

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