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Weight loss advice isn't based on good evidence

The orthodoxy in most high income countries is that anyone with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or more is overweight, but evidence suggests the cut-off point should be a fair bit higher, writes Clare Wilson

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An artificial intelligence could gauge how much pain a laboratory mouse is in based on its grimaces, potentially aiding the development of pain-relieving drugs

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AI that can see pain in a mouse's face could aid drug development

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DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

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^BHormone replacement therapy.^b Close-up of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) pills in a circular dispenser. HRT pills are synthetic hormones used to treat menopausal women. They counteract the hormone deficiency that occurs at menopause. These pills contain oestrogen, and often progestogen, drugs. HRT helps to prevent ^Iosteoporosis,^i ^Iatherosclerosis^i and ^Iatrophic vaginitis^i (where the vagina becomes thin and dry). Pills are taken daily on a monthly basis to coincide with the menstrual cycle. Adverse effects include nausea, tenderness of the breasts, fluid retention and leg cramps.

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Outdated research on HRT is letting people down

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FEATURE CROP ONLY Galileos watercolours of the moon 'By courtesy of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBACT), Central National Library of Florence, Ban of Reproduction

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Scientific illustrations illuminate work by Galileo, Einstein and more

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3D models of the femur and ulnae of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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Chewing can increase your body's energy use by up to 15 per cent

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Your smartphone could recognise you just by the way you hold it

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An artificial intelligence that analyses the microbiome and then recommends personalised diets may relieve chronic constipation more effectively that the standard treatment

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AI that recommends diets based on the microbiome relieves constipation

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

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Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

Unlike people, 43 species of monkeys and apes are known to have so-called vocal membranes, which may prevent them from having precise voice control

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Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

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Evolution of lactose tolerance probably driven by famine and disease

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AI learns how to recognise the species of splatted mosquitoes

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