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The fading American dream may be behind rise in US suicides

27 June 2018

Shrinking life chances plus lack of a social safety net may have left middle-aged Americans more vulnerable to suicide than peers in other rich nations

First cannabis-based drug approved in the US to treat epilepsy

26 June 2018

Epidiolex has become the first drug derived from marijuana to win FDA approval in the US, and will be used to treat two forms of childhood epilepsy

An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

25 June 2018

The Barents Sea, home to a diverse array of wildlife, could be completely gone in just a few years – perhaps the most dramatic impact of climate change yet seen

Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty

21 June 2018

The skeleton of an entirely new - but now extinct - species of gibbon was found in the tomb of Lady Xia, grandmother of China’s first emperor, and was probably her pet