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Glaciers in the Alps are on track for record-breaking ice loss

Glacier loss could break the 2022 record after a series of heatwaves this summer, raising the risk of falling river levels and deadly ice avalanches

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Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

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Are mushroom-growing kits seeding a biodiversity crisis across Europe?

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Richard Feynman鈥檚 80-year-old quantum postulate has now been validated

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Why Europe could get colder as Earth gets hotter

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Nanoparticles ease Alzheimer鈥檚 by making neurons from other cells

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A glacier collapse is most likely cause of the Nepal disaster

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Workout patch delivers some of the benefits of exercise with no exertion

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How long could we possibly live? A new estimate is mind-boggling

Biogerontologists are exploring the upper limit for human life. A recent study has it verging on two centuries 鈥� but columnist Graham Lawton finds reason to be sceptical

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Depression doesn鈥檛 shrink the brain like we thought it did

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鈥極ff the charts鈥� El Ni帽o is already the strongest since records began

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Quantum computing may be facing a replication crisis

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Weightlifting makes older women leaner, stronger and more mobile

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Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails

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Humans

Did humans evolve to be active throughout the day and night?

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Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease

Alzheimer鈥檚 disease is the most common form of dementia, which leads people to become progressively more forgetful and confused. Follow our coverage of the possible causes and treatments for this prevalent condition.

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Alzheimer鈥檚, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna

Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But we鈥檙e discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when used in the right way, have surprisingly wide-reaching benefits for health

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Three factors in midlife can delay the onset of dementia by 13 years

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Alzheimer鈥檚 may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut

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Game that reduces dementia risk may clear amyloid from men鈥檚 brains

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How wakeful rest may boost brain power in a manner similar to sleep

To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest the right kind of rest can encourage our brain to improve memory and learning while we鈥檙e awake.

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The surprising upsides of living in a reality that repeats for eternity

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Why many women with ADHD feel overwhelmingly controlled by their hormones

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The shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism

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