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Health

How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution

Factories in India making cheap antibiotics for the world are dumping their waste, with grim consequences for people living nearby – and global health too

Features

Chimps that mash potatoes challenge our understanding of tool use

Life

Chimps that mash potatoes challenge our understanding of tool use

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Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented?

Health

Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented?

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Cannabis

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Cannabis

A young juvenile male bonobo is groomed by his mom in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve.

Life

Bonobo mothers stand guard and chase off rivals while their sons mate

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Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

Life

Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

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Our pick of Venice Biennale 2019's most scientific artworks

Humans

Our pick of Venice Biennale 2019's most scientific artworks

Culture

The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa

Health

The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost

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Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

Health

Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

Insight

How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

Health

How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

The discovery that folic acid is important to the health of pregnant women is a classic story of serendipity in science

Regulars

How primates and elephants prevent climate change

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Health

Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies

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Life

Monkeys seem to prefer each other's company after a scary experience

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Technology

HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

Culture

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