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Researchers working in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest found that mosquitoes captured deep inside nature reserves showed a striking ...

When babies are born vaginally, they pick up helpful bacteria from their mum as they pass through the birth canal.

A new study finds that climate change has already cut incomes in the US by around 12 per cent since 2000. The figure is a ...

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A new definition of obesity could classify more than three-quarters of US adults as having the disease, impacting the ...