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drugs and alcohol

water

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Our water is full of drugs and we don't know their effects

Water reuse means we are all consuming a cocktail of other people's leftover medicines, but measuring their impact is almost impossible. It's time we clean up our act

Insight

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Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

Culture

utopia mock-up

Life

Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place

Culture

Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests

Earth

Oil pipeline construction halted after Native American protests

News

A fetus inside the amniotic sac

Life

Placenta’s alarm clock signals when it’s time for birth to begin

News

A group of swimming sperm

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Human sperm grown in a lab for the first time, claims study

News

Interior of treatment plant showing piping

Technology

Myth busted: dumped pills aren't main source of drugs in sewage

News

Doctors must let patients decide whether to take statins

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Doctors must let patients decide whether to take statins

Comment

White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

Life

White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

News

Women exercising

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Doing exercise may counteract some of alcohol’s deadly effects

Moderate weekly exercise seems to curb some of the effects of drinking, which is linked to heart disease, stroke and at least seven types of cancer

News

Physics

Fast forward: How we learned to love time travel

Culture

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Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

Features

Life

Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world

Culture

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Artificial ovary may boost fertility and postpone the menopause

News

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