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How does the pill affect your brain? We're finally getting answers

Millions of women and teenage girls use oral contraception, but we are only now getting an idea of what effect these drugs have on our brains

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The truth about the new class of Alzheimer’s drugs

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Planes are under attack from GPS jamming – can we find a fix?

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Environment

Is climate change accelerating after a record year of heat?

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Wildfire smoke is reversing decades of progress on clean air

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Why China's clean energy tech will determine our climate future

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Chip shortages are producing winners and losers in the AI gold rush

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Do new Alzheimer's drugs signal the end of the condition?

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A scanning electron micrograph of cancer cells in the intestine

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Cancer mystery as cases rise among younger people around the world

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A protest outside the White House, Washington DC, in September 2022 urging government action for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis, long covid and other infection-associated chronic conditions

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We’re starting to understand how viruses trigger chronic conditions

Widespread cases of long covid have shone a spotlight on the role viral infections play in previously neglected conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia

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How AI chatbots in search engines will completely change the internet

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Why rivers are important for everything from biodiversity to wellbeing

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The covid-19 virus gets into the brain – what does it do there?

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The green tech that could help Iceland become carbon neutral by 2040

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