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Long covid reveals the harm of one-size-fits-all medical treatment

While exercise and diet are frequently recommended as a universal way to improve your health, some conditions require more careful treatment

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A woman uses outdoor gym equipment

Health

Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good

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People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid

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Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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��ýs inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Cheerful mother and daughter tickling and playing at home on couch

Humans

What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

Humans

Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

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Environment

The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal

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Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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Mathematics

We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

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Life

What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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