The Paris Agreement
21 January 2021
A universal and legally-binding agreement to combat climate change, which aims to keep global temperatures from rising 2 ⁰C above pre-industrial levels.
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How to hug people in a coronavirus-stricken world
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Hugging has benefits for our health that might make it worth doing despite coronavirus risks – here’s how to reduce the chance you’ll pass on the virus
Hypoxia
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Hypoxia is a condition in which your tissues aren’t supplied with enough oxygen to function properly. It can be caused by medical conditions, such as lung disease, a severe asthma attack, anaemia or heart failure, but it also affects healthy people if...
Retroviruses
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A retrovirus is a type of virus that uses RNA as its genetic material, rather than DNA. Upon infecting a cell, it uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to create a DNA copy of its RNA, which it inserts into the genome of its host.
At work, school and seeing friends: How to lower your coronavirus risk
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Many countries are relaxing coronavirus restrictions. If you’ve been asked to return to work or school, how can you reduce the risk of infection to yourself and your family?
Does a high viral load or infectious dose make covid-19 worse?
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Does being exposed to more virus particles mean you’ll develop more severe illness? Data suggests the relationship between infection and severity may be complex
How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes
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Everyone processes food differently — even identical twins. A study found just half of our response to glucose and 20 per cent of our response to fat is genetic
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Is there any solid foundation to calling people evil geniuses, airheads, absent-minded professors, specky geeks and more?
The truth about intelligence: What makes someone smarter than others?
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Our search for genes associated with brainpower is starting to bear fruit, but isn’t the whole story. Your IQ is influenced by many subtle factors
Sleeping less in old age may be adaptation to survive in wild
11 July 2017
The ‘poorly-sleeping grandparent’ hypothesis backed with new evidence from Tanzania’s Hadza people, links our sleep patterns to having night sentinels
