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Life

No contraceptive is perfect, but can you trust apps to stop pregnancy?

Birth control app Natural Cycles has come under fire for unwanted pregnancies, but this just reveals how little we understand contraception

Insight

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Life

Banana-y bread and onion beer: How yeast can trick our tastebuds

Features

contraception

Life

Don't restrict women's contraception rights through moral panic

Leader

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Mind

Why taking ayahuasca is like having a near-death experience

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Inducing labour at 39 weeks leads to fewer emergency Caesareans

Health

Inducing labour at 39 weeks leads to fewer emergency Caesareans

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Health

Ecstasy-like drugs might relieve social difficulties in autism

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Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK

Health

Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK

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Life

Spying on whales: The shocking truth about humans and whales

Culture

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Health

The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma

Leader

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Life

Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves

Old ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ returns to topics we covered in 1961, 1981 and 1994 and finds that heatwaves were definitely not on the agenda

Regulars

Technology

There's no escaping the internet, says artist James Bridle

Culture

Health

One drink a day might be enough to stop dementia by flushing the brain

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Health

Women have more miscarriages than live births over their lifetime

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Technology

Cracking down on illegal cannabis with edible barcodes and blockchains

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