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Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die

A University of Cambridge study has found that stresses such as systemic racism and socioeconomic disadvantage may sensitise ...
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Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women

Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at ...
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Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...
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Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells

An international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells.
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Damage to brain’s white matter may play key role in neurodegenerative disease, and could be target for future treatments

Damage to white matter in the brain can trigger features associated with neurodegenerative disease, Cambridge researchers ...
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Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa

A new study suggests that malaria influenced where early humans lived in sub-Saharan Africa between around 74,000 and 5,000 ...
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Monkeys learn to self-medicate with soil to help them digest junk food

Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a ...
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Fixing the roads

Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution. The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in 18th-century England and Wales. The Rokos School of ...