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Your diet is probably dangerously acidic but there’s a simple solution

I am standing in the bathroom with a strip of litmus paper in my hand. I am going to pee

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Physicists are uncovering when nature’s strongest force falters

The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY We are getting closer to understanding when the

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There are five types of sleep – here’s what that means for your health

Sleep can be experienced very differently from one person to the next PeopleImages/Shutterstock Different people may experience one of five

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Your happiness in life may not be U-shaped – here’s how it could vary

Our happiness levels are not constant throughout our lives Ippei & Janine Photography/Getty Images The commonly held belief that happiness

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Jane Goodall, dogged advocate for the natural world, has died aged 91

Jane Goodall studying the behaviour of a chimpanzee during her research in Tanzania Penelope Breese/Liaison Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall has

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Two-in-one inhalers slash asthma attacks among young children

Combination asthma inhalers seem to be the best treatment option for all ages SBDIGIT/Getty Images Inhalers that combine providing immediate

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Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

The Yunxian 2 skull was squashed, but has now been reconstructed and appears to be an early Denisovan Gary Todd

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Venus has lava tubes, and they’re weird

We are learning more about Venus, the hot, high-pressure planet JSC/NASA We now know for sure that massive underground tunnels,

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Unforgeable quantum money can be stored in an ultracold ‘debit card’

A quantum version of a debit card could keep your money safe Globalimages101/Alamy A rudimentary quantum debit card that can

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Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier

Planning for your period might be difficult if long covid has made it last longer SeventyFour Images / Alamy Long