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A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Pacific Ocean off the island Rurutu in French Polynesia

Life

Whale songs can spread between groups nearly 8000 kilometres apart

Songs that were first heard from humpback whales off eastern Australia were picked up in whales off Ecuador several years later, suggesting that the noises passed between groups across the South Pacific Ocean

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Packets of drugs in woman's hands

Health

Drugs that mutate viruses to kill them could make them more dangerous

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Life

Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to changes in dolphin gene activity

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Magic Mushroom Spores

Health

Psilocybin therapy seems to help some people give up drinking alcohol

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A pregnant person receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in February 2021

Health

Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Telomeres shortening with each round of cell division

Health

Exceeding weekly alcohol recommendations linked to short chromosomes

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A 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the brain of a 65-year-old after a stroke. The orange coloring represents an area of dead tissue

Health

Stroke drug improves memory and repairs injured brain tissue in mice

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Illustration of a clock in a spiral

Physics

Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

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Deepwater disaster

Environment

Deepwater Horizon oil spill did no harm to BP's long-term share value

BP paid $65 billion in fines and compensation for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but a simulated version of the oil and gas company suggests there was no dent in long-term stock market performance

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Health

Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

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Health

Genetic errors cause most miscarriages, confirms largest study yet

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Health

Changing US abortion laws could dangerously restrict miscarriage care

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Mind

Can you take the trip out of psychedelics and still treat depression?

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