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Health

No sweat: Are sports drinks worth the money?

Dehydration is bad, and electrolytes are important. Sports drinks replace essential ions lost through sweat – but is that all just marketing hype?

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New Scientists looking through pink and blue dishes

Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

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In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Humans

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Culture

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Earth

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

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Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

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Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

From stolen underwear to clods of cow dung, some birds feather their nests with all manner of things – but what lies behind the decorative urge?

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Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

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Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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