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Don't Miss: a dance in virtual space, playable painting and podcasts

31 October 2018

Watch a powerful dance, play a painting created for the first world war centenary, listen to the latest about Saturn and read about the perils of our ever-cleaner homes


People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week

30 October 2018

Smoking cannabis can impair memory, but a new study has found that giving up can partially reverse the effect after several days


Spending a lot of time in the sun can cause actinic keratoses

Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer

28 October 2018

Sun spots – or actinic keratoses – are caused by UV light. Now people are using medicated creams to remove them before they have a chance to turn cancerous


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Skin tans the most when spending every other day out of the sun

25 October 2018

A study suggests your skin tans most when you spend every other day out of the sun, which has the added effect of reducing DNA damage and premature ageing


Hazy cityscape of LA

Trump is wrong – millions of Americans breathe badly polluted air

25 October 2018

President Trump claims the US has the world’s cleanest air, but he is ignoring urban pollution data while actively dismantling regulations that protect air quality


A baby breastfeeding

Data suggests 60 per cent of babies aren't breastfed after 6 weeks

24 October 2018

Guidelines recommend breastfeeding for 6 months, but data suggests that less than half of mothers in England choose or are able to breastfeed beyond six weeks


old couple walking

Bone hormone released during exercise may lead to new memory-loss drug

23 October 2018

Age-related memory loss might be reversed by boosting the effects of a hormone released by bones during exercise


woman and children

New clues to unravelling link between pregnancy and breast cancer risk

23 October 2018

Women are less likely to get breast cancer if they give birth before the age of 30. Now we know the effect kicks in specifically after 33 weeks of pregnancy


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