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Apple peel drug makes mice live longer by targeting a cause of ageing

9 July 2018

We’re beginning to understand the causes of ageing and how to reverse it – thanks to an extract from apple peel that helps improves strength in elderly mice
Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way

Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way

5 July 2018

Astronomers have discovered that a major prang between galaxies 10 billion years ago supplied extra gases that helped our sun grow

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