Health

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  What is ‘cycle syncing’, and how might it affect menstruation?

  14 May 2026

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  370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain

  13 May 2026

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  What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

  13 May 2026

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  Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here’s why the ‘Andes virus’ won’t cause the next pandemic

  13 May 2026

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  Squeak up! I can’t hear you: pilot whales are shouting to hear themselves over ship noise

  11 May 2026

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  I’ve investigated a hantavirus outbreak. Here’s what I can tell you about the cruise ship cluster

  7 May 2026

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  What is hantavirus, the disease that has killed 3 cruise ship passengers?

  4 May 2026

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  Gaza: six months of ceasefire have left the territory in rubble and little vision for the future of its people

  1 May 2026

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  Our study looked at teens’ social media behaviour in 43 countries – those from disadvantaged backgrounds face greater harms

  1 May 2026

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  Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

  1 May 2026