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Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...

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Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

A study into a spider species in which the females are prone to eat the males after sex is welcomed into Feedback's new ...

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A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent ...