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Life

Orangutan mothers tell infants where to go by scratching themselves

When it’s time for an orangutan mother to move to a new part of the forest, she scratches her body to alert her infant while avoiding attracting predators

News

Alcohol may impair your ability to judge how others are feeling

Mind

You're less empathetic when you've been drinking heavily

News

Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show

Environment

Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show

Culture

Pharmacist choosing medicines

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Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments

Analysis

From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

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From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

Regulars

Amyloidosis involves the build-up of sticky protein

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Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use

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Cannabis dispensary

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US teens may be finding it harder to buy cannabis after legalisation

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Technology

A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft

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Psychedelic

Definition

Psychedelic

Psilocybin

Definition

Psilocybin

Magic mushrooms’ magic ingredient is a promising treatment for depression

Definition

Antibiotic resistance

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Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?

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Definition

Medicine

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When US pulls overseas abortion funding, abortion rates go up not down

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