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Health Don't hate all processed foods - they make modern life possible Not all bad With a deluge of recent headlines linking processed foods to obesity , chronic diseases and cancer , their status as society's modern scourge seems assured. But are we wise to view all processed foods with equal disdain? These foods range from the minimally processed – frozen vegetables, plain yogurt and dried fruit … News
Space Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera THE storms on Jupiter are always brewing. Cloud formations made of ammonia, hydrocarbons and water swirl in a frigid soup of hydrogen and helium. Fingers of thick haze thousands of kilometres across feel their way around the planet, with various bands of the atmosphere circling at different speeds. Depending on their size, these churning clouds … Regulars
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Health The global treatment plan helping to control the HIV epidemic At the turn of the century, the best HIV therapies were available only in developed countries. Now, the increasingly global availability of powerful new treatments is helping to bring the HIV epidemic to heel gilead
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